If such a bubble popping means that only coding agents survive and we can get away from talking baby videos, I'm all for it.
if a tool like Claude Code (or any other LLM) suddenly cost $1,000 a month to reflect what it actually costs to run, would people keep paying for it out of pocket? Would their companies?
Probably. If you're not gaining at least $1000 a month in productivity now, then you're doing it wrong. I suspect however they may become an enterprise only offering, with limited availability to "normies"
I’m especially curious to hear from anyone who lived through 2000 or 2008. Does a postbubble world mean we just abandon the tech entirely or is it a move toward expensive solutions?
In the late 90s you could get 100k a year for being able to spell HTML, and then the bubble pop pushed all the grifters back to whatever they were doing before. Those with real skill stuck around, even though it did suppress salaries for a while.
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If such a bubble popping means that only coding agents survive and we can get away from talking baby videos, I'm all for it.
Probably. If you're not gaining at least $1000 a month in productivity now, then you're doing it wrong. I suspect however they may become an enterprise only offering, with limited availability to "normies"
In the late 90s you could get 100k a year for being able to spell HTML, and then the bubble pop pushed all the grifters back to whatever they were doing before. Those with real skill stuck around, even though it did suppress salaries for a while.