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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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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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nurettin ◴[03 Jul 25 20:40 UTC] No.44458992{3}[source]▶
> Communism is an ideal but never a reality

There is nothing ideal about communism. I'd rather own my production tools and be as productive as I want to be. I'd rather build wealth over trading opportunities, I'd rather hire people and reinvest earnings. That is ideal.

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chairmansteve ◴[04 Jul 25 05:33 UTC] No.44461409{4}[source]▶
Problem is, you may own the means of production, but most people don't.

If you don't address that, you'll end up with a "dictatorship of the proletariat".

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1. nurettin ◴[04 Jul 25 05:46 UTC] No.44461475{5}[source]▶
That's not a problem anymore. I live in a 2nd world country. Every farmer has a phone, anyone who wants can get their child a laptop. Just because I don't have access to machines which build plane engines doesn't mean I have the right to complain about proletariat. People who invented, invested, earned and built the damn things own them. If that's "dictatorship" that's fine.