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Well as a person who is working as a software developer I wouldn't be so hasty.

You can write more code, but that has never been a real bottleneck. Understanding and maintenance of this code is another matter altogether.

Add to that the price of AI subscriptions are currently heavily subsidized by venture capital and even with the subsidies tokens turn out to be more expensive than people.

Also no one is calling it SaaS apocalypse.

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Only individuals and very small businesses are getting subsidised subscriptions now

How is not a single AI company profitable then?

it's still super economical and cost efficient to use even frontier models at API billing rates compared to humans.

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A human can work all day on debugging a software defect, or Opus can find the root cause in ten minutes for $20

Yeah or it can delete your prod database without asking you. Additionally the heavy use of AI can lead to comprehension debt meaning no one can understand it. AI is good if it has the data but usually the data is not only code it's Kafka and infrastructure and other ongoing outages that may be related and logs.

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Why waste energy distinguish are you a level 4 or a level 5 offender. Our energy would be much better spend dealing with the root of the problem. That is a society allowing that level of accumulation of wealth. No matter if you are performing for your fans or flying to Epstein island.

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Why Civil Resistance Works the book that 2x figure comes from has some major controversy about cherry picking data as well as playing with the definition of peaceful protest.

If peaceful protests worked (as good as this article suggestions) the BBC wouldn't be writing about them.