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0 pointsthreecheese7mo ago0 comments

I was told that - with the full complement of good tools for a scrum team- the cost approaches a 6th member of the team. The crap from MS/GH plus a decent agent like Claude/Bedrock. You can squeeze decent behavior from vscode agent if you know what you are doing, but anyone who knows what they are doing wishes they had something better.

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trenchpilgrim7mo ago

That isn't true for our team. It's more like the cost of coffee/tea/energy drinks for our team.

davidlstanton7mo ago

One of the following is true:

I really don’t know what a full complement of good tools mean! your team is very large your team is very cheap You spend an awful lot on Ai tooling!

We spend about £50 - £200 a head per month on AI tooling.

Assuming everyone was at the top of of that scale (most aren’t) it’s like ai for 50 employees = cost of 1 employee.

Incipient7mo ago

...I kinda like GH Copilot. Only does something when I ask, and leaves me in my traditional IDE.

...i just wish the code it generated was decent.

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