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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by gnerd00 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:09AM (#45323427)
that is absolutely false - the capital and resources used to create these things are societal scale. An individual consumer is not paying that cost at this time.
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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by victorbjorklund on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:48AM (#45323770)
You can make the same argument about humans. The employeer doesnt pay the full cost and time to create the worker from an embryo to a senior dev.
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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by devmor on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:45PM (#45325485)
Unless you are advocating for executing developers when they are no longer capable of working, that’s a bit of a non sequitur.

Humans aren’t tools.

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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by mensetmanusman on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:13AM (#45323480)
That only proves the point. If something increases the value of someone’s time by 5% and 500,000,000 people are affected by it, the cost will collapse.

These models are only going to get better and cheaper per watt.

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Re:AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly... by devmor on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:47PM (#45325497)
> These models are only going to get better and cheaper per watt.

What do you base this claim on? They have only gotten exponentially more expensive for decreasing gain so far - quite the opposite of what you say.

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