Comment on Cognition Labs Seeks $2B ValuationparentComments−spaceman_20202yThey’ll need to be better and more autonomous to justify the pricesNo one is going to pay $100 for “better than Google search” chatGPT, even if its AGI tierBut paying $100 for a “junior dev who takes over all the grunt work” is still a value buy−nextworddev2yIn theory, paying $499/mo could be justified if it improves a Senior / Staff developer's productivity by even 10% (more than say ChatGPT)−geteegudc2yThis is not the sort of calculation businesses seem willing to make. It can be hard to get an extra stick of RAM or a copy of JetBrains.
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They’ll need to be better and more autonomous to justify the prices
No one is going to pay $100 for “better than Google search” chatGPT, even if its AGI tier
But paying $100 for a “junior dev who takes over all the grunt work” is still a value buy
In theory, paying $499/mo could be justified if it improves a Senior / Staff developer's productivity by even 10% (more than say ChatGPT)
This is not the sort of calculation businesses seem willing to make. It can be hard to get an extra stick of RAM or a copy of JetBrains.