It depends on the size / complexity of what they’re trying to port, of course, but it’s not at all unusual for a programmer to be the main income source for a median household and to take a year on a project. Or, be a member of a 5-10 programmer team that takes 2-4 years to develop a project. In a “butts in seats” office world like we mostly had before 2020, that was a LOT of commute miles driven to make that software, way more than $1000, and energy consumption for the households and the offices and their HR, accounting and other administrative overhead…
Yes but how many billable hours did they get for this 320-minute ordeal?
Spending $1000 on transportation costs commuting to and from work over a span of 2-4 years is completely different from burning through $1000 dollars of tokens in a single workday.
Especially if the boss now demands the same amount of output from you every day as the new normal.
And that’s not to mention how the energy and water consumption happens on a much shorter timescale than the drawn out one you needed to cite to make it seem comparable.
“What did it cost?”
“The yearly energy consumption of a median household and $1,000”
Don’t forget the water usage
It depends on the size / complexity of what they’re trying to port, of course, but it’s not at all unusual for a programmer to be the main income source for a median household and to take a year on a project. Or, be a member of a 5-10 programmer team that takes 2-4 years to develop a project. In a “butts in seats” office world like we mostly had before 2020, that was a LOT of commute miles driven to make that software, way more than $1000, and energy consumption for the households and the offices and their HR, accounting and other administrative overhead…
Counting energy consumption by a programmer’s children as a cost of code generation? That’s the most capitalist thing I’ve read in a month!
Not acknowledging the costs of a programmer’s children is the ultimate late stage capitalism.
Yes but how many billable hours did they get for this 320-minute ordeal?
Spending $1000 on transportation costs commuting to and from work over a span of 2-4 years is completely different from burning through $1000 dollars of tokens in a single workday.
Especially if the boss now demands the same amount of output from you every day as the new normal.
And that’s not to mention how the energy and water consumption happens on a much shorter timescale than the drawn out one you needed to cite to make it seem comparable.
320 minutes of wall clock time on Fable tells you nothing, cost could be anywhere from $2 to $2000.
I’m not much of a gambling man myself, but you do you
My bet is the whole story is fabricated. It’s very plausible, but lacking any real detail.
Jesus Christ.