Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available
by tedunangst on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:08PM
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You'd think "very smart" programmers would be equipped to do basic cost/benefit analysis. If it costs $900 and provides $1000 in value, that's $100 more than not buying it.
It depends if as a employee, your working time stays the same.
If you’re an employee your company should pay for it. If not, find a better employer!
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available
by account42 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:40AM
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You'd think "very smart" programmers would be equipped to consider additional factors such as the cost of getting reliant on a tool controlled by a single vendor as well as the effects on other things that they care about. You'd think they also understand that people are not machines and reducing a task by a certain time does not neccessarily mean that they can get that much more work more done overall.
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available
by tedunangst on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:04AM
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If the amortized benefit is less than one minute per month, then it's probably best to simply pass instead of hoping for a price adjustment.
Some companies seem to be leaning into higher subscription pricing (Superhuman and Motion come to mind) and almost certainly produce far more value than their subscriptions cost if you ask me, but there's definitely a mental barrier to value based pricing to consumers, as well as the fact that with so many companies offering cheap/free software, the market isn't solely determined by value created but rather comparison against other software.