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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

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214 points Brajeshwar | 4 comments | 31 Aug 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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philip1209 ◴[31 Aug 25 15:57 UTC] No.45084165[source]▶
I looked at our anthropic bill this week. Saw that one of our best engineers was spending $300/day on Claude. Leadership was psyched about it.
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merlincorey ◴[31 Aug 25 21:12 UTC] No.45087139[source]▶
Claude is making $72k a year for a consistent $300/day spend.
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PhantomHour ◴[31 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.45087299[source]▶
Bear in mind those are revenue figures, they're costing claude hundreds a day.

One imagines Leadership won't be so pleased after the inevitably price hike (which, given the margins software uses, is going to be in the 1-3 thousands a day) and the hype wears off enough for them to realize they're spending a full salary automating a partial FTE.

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1. ojosilva ◴[31 Aug 25 22:44 UTC] No.45087759[source]▶
But, by the looks of things, models will be more efficient by then and a cheaper-to-run model will produce comparable output. At least that's how it's been with OSS models, or with the Openai api model. So maybe the inevitable price hike (or rate limiting) may lead to switching models / providers and the results being just as good.
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2. krainboltgreene ◴[01 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45088779[source]▶
> But, by the looks of things, models will be more efficient by then and a cheaper-to-run model will produce comparable output

So far there's negative evidence of this. Things are getting more expensive for similar outputs.

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3. etoxin ◴[01 Sep 25 06:26 UTC] No.45090019[source]▶
And this varies widely between models based on how they are told to reason.
4. racc1337 ◴[01 Sep 25 07:57 UTC] No.45090557[source]▶
There is an interesting substack post about this. LLM costs are dropping 10x/year but the amount of tokens used have gone up like crazy https://open.substack.com/pub/ethanding/p/ai-subscriptions-g...