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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
Further, Cursor might cost $20/month today, but to what degree is that subsidized by VC investment? All the information we have points to frontier models just not being profitable to run at those types of prices, and those investors are going to want a return at some point.

>>xmodem+Ut1
I dunno, with the advances in open source models I could see in a few years having AI workstations that cost $20,000 with 1TB of VRAM so you don’t have to rely on OpenAI or Cursor. The RTX 6000 Pro is only $7500 and has 96GB of VRAM.