My Development Team Costs $41.73 a Month
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The author shares their experience of having a development team cost $41.73 a month, sparking discussion on the role of AI in development and the value of human oversight.
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(*) one man project, not including labour costs of said one man
Ask them all to do the task, get them all to refute or agree with what the others say, let them all come up with design ideas or debugging then share their solution and synthesize into one outcome.
I’d never use just one at a time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981747
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983570
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151
my personal pet peeve is the idea that "AI is better than humans" instead of "AI is useful as a tool", LLMs have too many caveats to be the last line of decision making in pretty much anything, but under supervision they are an amazing force multiplier.