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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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tough ◴[03 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44456141[source]▶
maybe the issue is capitalism where even if your productivity multiplies x100

your salary stays x1

and your work hours stay x1

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koakuma-chan ◴[03 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44456191[source]▶
But aren't you supposed to be incentivized to work harder by having equity?
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adastra22 ◴[03 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44456460{3}[source]▶
That doesn’t happen anywhere outside of Silicon Valley.
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1. tough ◴[03 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44456818{4}[source]▶
And even in Silicon Valley you get the survivor ship bias of the 1% of companies getting to IPO and making their employees decent exit stories...

99% of startups die off worthless and your equity never realises.