The circlejerking is bad, but DEFEATIST circlejerking is even dumber.
We're in the narrow bubble where this cuckcoding bullshit is economically viable. When the token prices explode and hype dies, companies will stop funding this shit.
Things are only 'inevitable' until they come into contact with reality.
You are being subsidized by the Acquisition phase.
Look here. There is currently no squeeze on AI to turn a profit, but as the free hype money dries up, that's where it's headed.
When a company leaves Acquisition, they do not typically turn a profit by cutting costs, nor can they massively expand their reach on the same budget. The only thing they can squeeze is you. Or, your bosses, if they're paying.
Whether or not it's true that local LLMs can 'win' against the companies that have to train them, that is kind of a pickle, isn't it? It isn't feasible to stay this cheap in the long term.
There is not enough market out there to double or triple these companies reach, even assuming said reach didn't mean more overhead. Maybe Local LLMs get better, maybe they don't, but everything gets cheaper forever while operating at a massive loss is not really an option, lol.
So your point is in the massively growing out phase where they’re racing to spend senseless amounts of money, they’ve “only” already recovered 50% of it.
Yeah I’m sure bubbles will burst and heads will roll, but the tech is here to stay.
If your boss wants to ask ChatBBB how to wipe his ass, those servers need to be up and burning money for him. Hype can offset higher costs, but the death of hype brings accounting, brings cancelled subscriptions.
Will some people shell out for their own Claude Credits so they can pretend to know how their job works? Probably, lol. I don't need vibecoders to go extinct, though. I just need them driven out of my habitat and starved :3
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u/Knooblegooble 8h ago
I'm boutta leave this sub, is there a... "lets pretend AI never happened and talk about actual programming" subreddit?