The subscription plans are insanely cheap currently, but won’t be forever. Atm you can pay $200/month to get anywhere from 1.2x to 5x faster depending where you are on the learning curve. If people aren’t taking advantage of that then it’s equivalent to if your office had a team of 10 engineers but only 5 of them are being given any tasks and the others are told to do nothing.
As to people adopting it naturally, there are any number of reasons why they wouldn’t, even if it’s good. Firstly it’s a massive change and people as a rule do not like change. Secondly it’s a learning curve, it’s not easy, and you have to invest time in it and initially it will make you slower rather than faster. Thirdly, what’s in it for the employee? They’re not gonna get paid more if they use AI to get 2x more work done, they’re employer captures all of that. They work the same hours, have to learn a whole new workflow, just go get the same pay. Why bother?
But what does being faster really get you? Who are you racing against?
Also it’s not actually faster. It writes the code faster but all of the other processes still take the same time. Writing code is only a small part of a software engineers job. If the code gets done faster they still need to document it, get it approved, add alerting, test it and fix any bugs. Those parts still take the same amount of time so you are only really going marginally faster at best assuming the code has no issue that need to be fixed.
Also since the code part is done so fast those other tasks start to pile up and become a bottle neck.
They are selling this like it’s a full fledged engineer for $200 a month but that’s not what it is at all.
The subscription plans are insanely cheap currently, but won’t be forever. Atm you can pay $200/month to get anywhere from 1.2x to 5x faster depending where you are on the learning curve. If people aren’t taking advantage of that then it’s equivalent to if your office had a team of 10 engineers but only 5 of them are being given any tasks and the others are told to do nothing.
As to people adopting it naturally, there are any number of reasons why they wouldn’t, even if it’s good. Firstly it’s a massive change and people as a rule do not like change. Secondly it’s a learning curve, it’s not easy, and you have to invest time in it and initially it will make you slower rather than faster. Thirdly, what’s in it for the employee? They’re not gonna get paid more if they use AI to get 2x more work done, they’re employer captures all of that. They work the same hours, have to learn a whole new workflow, just go get the same pay. Why bother?
But what does being faster really get you? Who are you racing against?
Also it’s not actually faster. It writes the code faster but all of the other processes still take the same time. Writing code is only a small part of a software engineers job. If the code gets done faster they still need to document it, get it approved, add alerting, test it and fix any bugs. Those parts still take the same amount of time so you are only really going marginally faster at best assuming the code has no issue that need to be fixed.
Also since the code part is done so fast those other tasks start to pile up and become a bottle neck.
They are selling this like it’s a full fledged engineer for $200 a month but that’s not what it is at all.