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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: 0.263s | 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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1. darth_avocado ◴[03 Jul 25 17:06 UTC] No.44457128[source]▶
More accurate representation is this:

Productivity multiplies x2 You keep your job x0.5 Your salary x0.8 (because the guy we just fired will gladly do your job for less) Your work hours x1.4 (because now we expect you to do the work of 2 people, but didn’t account for all the overhead that comes with it)