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They could now, because big "AI" companies sell their product on a loss.
The individual programmer is already outpriced when it comes to training those kind of models themselves. Once the companies want to turn a profit, the just laid off worker is outpriced as well. If an LLM can really do as good as a human programmer, who costs 70-100k, nothing stops the LLM provider to charge 35-50k easily. Try to augment your productivity at that price point, especially without a job.
I mean, society came through the change of the first and second work sector, we could reap the new productivity gains for the benefit of all, but, alas here we are at the beginning of a new crisis ๐
mmm so I've only used the online models for agent coding, since I'm on a laptop and lack the hardware, but my understanding is that local models like devstral and llama are relatively competitive, and those can be used on like... a gaming rig? I don't think they'd be able to push the price that much.
But I don't disagree that big companies will try their darnedest to.