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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: 0.452s | 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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dfee ◴[03 Jul 25 15:44 UTC] No.44456214[source]▶
Quite literally not.

Capitalism encourages you to put your butt in your own seat and reap the rewards of your efforts.

Of course it also provides you the decision making to keep your butt in someone else’s seat if the risk vs. reward of going your own isn’t worth it.

And then it allows your employer to put another butt in your seat if you don’t adopt efficiency patterns.

So: capitalism is compatible with communism as an option, but it’s generally a suboptimal option for one or both parties.

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1. tough ◴[03 Jul 25 16:38 UTC] No.44456842[source]▶
Maybe in a true -capitalistic- market that'd happen.

but the state keeps meddling and making oligarchs and friends have unfair advantages.

It's hard to compete when the system is rigged from the start.

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2. p_l ◴[03 Jul 25 20:35 UTC] No.44458943[source]▶
Capitalism is exactly about amassing capital to make others reliant on capitalist providing capital for the tools necessary to do the work, then extracting rent from the value produced.

In true capitalist market you end up with oligarchy.

3. dfee ◴[03 Jul 25 21:07 UTC] No.44459203[source]▶
also a fair point :)