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>>tablet+(OP)
One thing that really bothered me that the author glossed over (perhaps they don't care, given the tone of the article) is where they said:

> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.

> Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive, be they fleshly or algebraic.

But do you know what another part of being a senior developer is? Not just making them more productive, but also guiding the junior developers into becoming better, independent, self-tasking, senior coders. And that feedback loop doesn't exist here.

We're robbing ourselves of good future developers, because we aren't even thinking about the fact that the junior devs are actively learning from the small tasks we give them.

Will AI completely replace devs before we all retire? Maybe. Maybe not.

But long before that, the future coders who aren't being hired and trained because a senior dev doesn't understand that the junior devs become senior devs (and that's an important pipeline) and would rather pay $20/month for an LLM, are going to become a major loss/ brain drain domestically.

>>ang_ci+ae1
It's a bit misleading to compare $20/month with an actual human person. The junior dev wont get half way through the day and tell you they've used up all their coding time for the month and will now respond with jibberish.

Cursor is a heck of a lot more than $20/month if you actually want it working for a full work day, every day.

>>esskay+Nh1
I worked on a team where a new hire from a prestigious school told his manager "That work is boring and mundane and I'm not going to do it."

He didn't last long.

>>patric+gS1
Yeah, so you fire them and replace them with another human, thats still vastly cheaper than a person plus a per-token ai fee.