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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 3 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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lvl155 ◴[03 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44455862[source]▶
Is $200/month a lot of money when you can multiply your productivity? It depends but the most valuable currency in life is time. For some, spending thousands a month would be worth it.
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nisegami ◴[03 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44456068[source]▶
My butt needs to be in this chair 8 hours a day. Whether it takes me 20 hours to do a task or 2 doesn't really matter.
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bad_haircut72 ◴[03 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44456084[source]▶
This is why communism doesnt work lmao
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rapind ◴[03 Jul 25 15:41 UTC] No.44456179[source]▶
Communism is an ideal but never a reality. What you see in reality is at best an attempt at communism which is quickly derailed by corruption and greed. I mean, it's great to have ideals, but you should also recognize when those ideals are completely impractical given the human condition.

By the way, this also applies to the "Free market" ideal...

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1. delusional ◴[03 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44456239[source]▶
Importantly, problems with the ideal shouldn't preclude good actions that take us in a direction.

There being problems with absolute libertarian free markets doesn't mean all policies that evoke the free market ideal must be disregarded, nor does the problems with communism mean that all communist actions must be ignored.

We can see a problem with an ideal, but still wish to replicate the good parts.

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2. rapind ◴[03 Jul 25 15:51 UTC] No.44456288[source]▶
Sure. The issue for me is when people intentionally mislabel something to make it look worse.

For example, mislabelling socialism as communism. The police department, fire department, and roads are all socialist programs. Only a moron would call this communism and yet for some reason universal healthcare...

There's also this nonsense when someone says "That's the free market at work", and I'm like, if we really lived in a free market then you'd be drinking DuPont's poison right now.

Using the words "Communism" and "Free market" just show a (often intentional) misunderstanding of the nuance of how things actually work in our society.

The communism label must be the most cited straw man in all of history at this point.

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3. hooverd ◴[03 Jul 25 16:13 UTC] No.44456549[source]▶
for all the lip service capitalists give to the free market, they hate it. their revealed preference is for a monopoly.