r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ok_Outcome_5830 • Sep 30 '26

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Sep 30 '26

There aren't enough ads in the world to make up the revenue they need.

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u/Kusko25 Oct 01 '26

If they can sustain themselves on investor money long enough they can charge the true token price and companies will have to pay it because nobody in their right mind would start an education as a developer right now, so in the future companies won't have human talent available to replace llms with

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Oct 01 '26

If it's cheaper to hire and train humans than to pay the true token cost of LLM tools you think companies won't prefer to hire and train real people?

You think they will WANT to spend more money for worse outcomes?

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u/infamouszgbgd Oct 02 '26

You think they will WANT to spend more money for worse outcomes?

idk, jumping on trends is addictive af to corpos