I wonder what's the ceiling for these plans' prices.
At some point, it becomes a non-negligible fraction of the salary for the employee, especially in non-US employment markets.
A lot depends on how good open source models do. I know I can buy a 20k rig or whatever to get model X. If someone wants to charge me 3k a month to write code I just buy the hardware.
I think there will be an employer backlash at some point. Paying an extra couple thousand in subscriptions so a junior can write copy-paste emails and Slack messages? Nah fam, write those yourself.
Or just use AI mode on Google's homepage. I asked it to find an article that compares a certain thing to another, which doesn't exist. So Google automatically wrote a 5 page article comparing the two things and built a proper article with cited references. Most people don't need a subscription to anything.
The google AI thing on their website gives me terrible results when I use it at work. Basically it's so unreliable I don't trust it. FWIW I don't log into a google account on my work devices (because we don't have Google enterprise services, and I'm not going to log into my personal Gmail account on my work computer) so that could be making a difference.
In my observation employers are willing to throw practically unlimited cash, probably because it’s directly funding a future where they don’t have to pay pesky engineers with their holidays and their pensions.
Of course a company doesn’t want to pay for someone to delegate all their work for an additional fee.
This is why some companies stopped hiring juniors. They would rather pay a mid-level or higher with the expectations that the LLM use will be a productivity booster in a more direct sense. So the bar also rises.
