AI companies are switching everyone to a pay-as-you-go model, this is really good news for devs fearing automation
It's very clear that with AI companies moving to a pay-as-you-go token-based model, it'll become more expensive to rely on AI than it is to simply hire a competent developer. I'm not just talking about a slight increase but more like an insane unjustifiable cost.
This means that within the next couple of years you're going to see companies hiring people back. No more mass layoffs.
For example, I was reading a story a few weeks back about how Uber had gone all in on AI. And within 4 months they used up 3 years worth of their AI budget, spending over $3bn. For that amount of money, they could have hired 12k-15k employees.
There is no way this shit is sustainable. I think lot of jobs are still in danger of being fully automated, ie marketing roles, typewriters etc. but developer tasks are so token heavy, there's no fucking way companies are going to be spending eye watering money if it's more expensive than humans.
What's everyone's thoughts on this?