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To save you a click: no, the author does not provide any source for the headline.


I think they read this nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867312


Possibly, although at least that article tried to justify the $100k with some handwaving about multiple agents working in parallel with minimal human supervision.

Unfortunately, people are swallowing the headline without any critical thinking.


> To save you a click: no, the author does not provide any source for the headline.

TFA kind of did, with the '20-30 dollars per person, per month, across an organisation' quote / comment - though they didn't do the math for you.

But that range of monthly spend only needs 220-400 ish people to reach the headline figure of $100k.

Whether that's good value, who can say.


With a large code base and big context windows, it's easy to blow past the $20-30 allocation in an hour


100K, per developer?


Oh, I overlooked that bit.

The math on the 'if costs keep rising' bit of the story would take a hefty amount of (the bad type of) oversight to get to that figure per developer, yes.




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