• Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I love that their email made it sound like it was a wash, like “we’re just changing our billing model, you’ll get credits now, samesies!” but then this pricing chart buried 3-levels down from the announcement lays out just how much less you’re going to get for the same price.

    I wonder about all the startups who were bragging about their $10k/month AI coding bills being the best money they ever spent. When this new pricing kicks in and pushes it to $40k/month right around the time all the vibe-coded shit blows up their codebase, I wonder if they’ll still be so happy with their choices.

    I interviewed for a place a while back and started asking about quality and velocity and how they balance it with AI developer tools, he said something like “One of our developers closed 400 PRs last month” and I instantly knew it was definitely not the place for me.

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      7 hours ago

      I wonder about all the startups who were bragging about their $10k/month AI coding bills being the best money they ever spent.

      WTF did they think was going to happen?

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      10 hours ago

      So, did they use AI tools to type “LGTM” 400 times or nah?

      But yeah, I also find that frustrating. Management just looks at terrible metrics like PRs closed or lines of code produced.
      It’s not even novel that you can produce terrible code very quickly. Decades ago, our industry learned that it isn’t worth it, because you suffer for it later. Now the game is altered slightly and management demands that we throw all these learnings out the window.