Note that 200 dollars of value is different than 200 dollars of profit.
replyI personally don’t find it that useful for most tasks, but if say, you get paid $50/hr for your work and it saves you more than 4 hours of work in a month, there you go.
replyObviously this assumes that you can find 4+ extra hours of $50/hr work every month, or you can work 4 hours less. Neither of these assumptions is correct for people who work for a fixed salary.
replyI think this is the rub the enterprise will be forced to grapple with. Not everyone is going to get $200 worth of value for the organization. In fact since it's not a restricted tool some will waste time and company resources using it. Undoubtedly some will get the value out of it, but it's very likely, that these are the same people providing more than what they're paid already. Nothing has changed other than, potentially, time savings and (hopefully) output improvement. Neither of those are any sort of guarantee though, either. Subjective systems are hard to show value, especially in the long term.
replyThat doesn’t change value. It’s value whether or not you can maintain a profit over it.
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replyHere most of my colleagues have +200 dollar rates. It's really a no brainer. But sure, in south America or some Asian countries maybe it is. But still most devs need it anyway. Also in the poor regions.
replyIn Sweden $200 is ~5% of average programmer monthly income after tax. $200/h rate is not a representative salary for SEs in South America, Asian countries nor Europe.
replyIf you're running a business I agree it's a no-brainer, but the context here is for personal projects.
Come on. The 200 spend on Claude is easily earned back. A few hours of work maximum.
reply$200/h is on the extreme end and I would argue most people here aren't anywhere close to that.
replyThe median hourly wage in the US is $28/h, this equates to nearly 7.5 hours. A full day of work a month for the average person to use Claude with reasonable limits.
Yes, the people on $28/h may not be the software development types, so their income might not be as high, but these are the people who would probably be vibe coding the most since they aren't day to day programmers!
I suspect the reply above is referring to charge out rates rather than wages.
replyMy fault, thanks for the correction (:
replyMost of the world's developers, even in not-poor regions, make significantly less than what your colleagues charge.
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