Same. Feels like it goes against the entire “hacker” ethos that brought me here in the first place. That sentence made me actually feel physically sick on initial read as well. Everyday now feels like a day where I have exponentially less & less interest in tech. If all of this AI that’s burning the planet is so incredible, where are the real world tangible improvements? I look around right now and everything in tech, software, internet, etc. has never looked so similar to a dumpster fire of trash.
Maybe think about it like this: A dev is ~1k per day. If the tool gives you 3x then 2x in cost is fine.
(The current cost of 1k is "real" and ultimately, even if you tinker on your own, you're paying this in opportunity cost)
((caveats, etc))
The biggest rewards for human developers came from building addictive eyeball-getters for adverts so I don’t see how we can expect a very high bar for the results of their replacement AI factories. Real-world and tangible just seem completely out of the picture.