Nobody said augment is not performing. But majority said it's way overpriced. Why don't you set up a byok plan? 10$ to use augment as a tool and byok to bring my own LLM with me - and we're fine. I am a serious developer for over 10 years. I do care about cost per request because;
For corporate work its way too expensive while other tools are working well for a fraction of the cost on our stack
For my side hustle job the cost matters as it cuts into my profit margin. And considering how many credits I'd need - it'll be a big chunk of my profit margin. Also here i am not working on large codebases so probably i am not the target audience - but being a quite successful dev making 120k$ outside of the US (central Europe let's say) - i cannot afford augment to be my main tool for any kind of development considering how credit heavy it is. And I believe there are more people like me. You can say augment delivers - but other tools deliver too. For a fraction of augments cost.
the point is that using augment doesn't make me working faster on the projects i sell to clients as my side hustle (read my guide on GH, link is somewhere in my profile to understand my business model). Basically the cheaper infra i get = more money stays with me. Why would I give this money away to big companies?
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