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Re:Cursor 1.0 by bananapub on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:12AM (#44189828)
> Even in a European with lower wages compared to US, total cost of a developer will be minimum 5000 euros/per month. And that's just salary with all taxes, not accounting laptop costs, office space, etc.

lolololol

> You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.

who “needs” that and who pays for it?

the employer for both?

high school economics class is not how the world works, regrettably.

Re:Cursor 1.0 by eloisant on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:24AM (#44189879)
I guess the world doesn't work like that because employers don't even understand high school economics.

They'd rather have an employee spend 2 weeks on a task than shell out a few bucks at it, because they don't realize the 2 weeks of salary is more expensive than the external expense.

Re:Cursor 1.0 by redserk on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:27AM (#44190999)
You’re making the erroneous assumption that the productivity gains would meaningfully generate revenue for the business to offset additional costs.

Plus development work is quite bursty — a productivity gain for developers does not necessarily translate into more prospects in a sales pipeline.