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glassbottommeg.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Heh

They're cooked

Source: OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $2,000/month agent, a $10,000/month agent for coding, and a $20,000/month PhD-level agent (The Information)

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jordancarroll.com•4 days ago

AI better watch out, programmers are coming for its job

jzwesolowski.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is no doubt in my mind some people are going to say "this is worth it, the AI is going to work for me 24/7, so that's like four programmers in one, and I bet it's much faster, too!".

We won't see the end of this until someone goes bankrupt because of it.

kaynsd.itch.io•4 days ago

And they've told the investors this hoping it would be received POSITIVELY?! JFC...

mylinuxrig.bsky.social•4 days ago

i can do coding for $10k a month

mylinuxrig.bsky.social•4 days ago

also i could use some ideas on a new personal coding project, ive been in a real rut lately.

reply to this post with ur best ideas, come on do it

byethanfox.bsky.social•4 days ago

At that point, the only reason a CEO has to use those services is to have "staff" over which they exert absolute control, and can't tolerate any dissension, like some sociopath.
Oh wait-

quadraticink.bsky.social•4 days ago

If outsourcing firms in lower income parts of the world don't jump on this to advertise their business as, "An affordable alternative to AI," they are missing an opportunity.

datafran.bsky.social•4 days ago

OpenAI, putting the ass in SAAS.

samokorosec.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good! 🎉

wolfechu.bsky.social•4 days ago

I suppose the offset is that's an agent that can be working 24/7 with no breaks or days off.

24/7 doing a bad job, obviously

cailin.dev•4 days ago

I just keep coming back to “LLMs are not minds, they do not think or reason, at all, and they never will” and losing my mind at every single person who acts and believes like they will be able to fully replace humans

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like I knew the music would stop when they started admitting how much the actual cost was, but even I wasn't expecting "about the same price as a developer in the US"

paulhembree.bsky.social•4 days ago

lmao yeah - and the price for the PhD agent is about as much as a provost or dean makes at an R1 university - and about three to four times what a regular professor makes

urzaz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Heh. They call me "The Information"

toadking.com•4 days ago

Imagine paying a 120k salary for a programmer who requires at least one other programmer to fix its mistakes-oops I mean "hallucinations"

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like imagine if there were other places other than the US with cheaper labor

Can you even imagine how much cheaper they'd be than this, while also typically having managers and quality guarantees built into contracts and QA and so on

Like gosh thank goodness that doesn't exist or they'd be cooked

toadking.com•4 days ago

Unfortunately not only are tech CEOs stupid they are also incredibly racist these days so that cheap labor is not appealing to them anymore.

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh no it really is, heh, they're offshoaring tons of work right now because of a weird tax law

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

And we're not even to the part yet where someone pays the fee and then posts the screenshot where it coded a vulnerability into their software and then lied about it

clawful1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Who's liable too if OpenAI coding makes your automated door crush people on Thursdays?

davidjayindie.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm Machiavellian about this but oh god let it happen please.

mjollnyr.bsky.social•4 days ago

OpenAI: "For the low low price of one developer, you can slow down the work of one of your actual developers!"

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is easily the best joke we're gonna get on this news, everyone else hang up your spurs heh https://bsky.app/profile/jordancarroll.com/post/3ljnlpx5l5c2z

winks.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm waiting for the bubble to pop just as much as the next person, but isn't this another case of [insert Homer Simpson "...so far" meme.jpg]? Wouldn't the prices just trend downward? A

glassbottommeg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Those prices would already be on the hairy edge of what they can charge and be profitable at, so no, the prices would not trend downward

They can only lower prices if they have overhead to cut, which they likely do not, since as it stands they sell the services at a HILARIOUS loss

suburban-vampire.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the SaaS equivalent of when Trump was saying like "If we just sell thousands of these Trump Gold Cards at $5 million each, that's the whole deficit gone right there!"

dhamster.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lmao.. per MONTH?

dhamster.bsky.social•4 days ago

I have a PhD, I'd do anything for $20,000/month

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