If an "AI" company can sell you access to software that will replace a $250k/year software engineer. They're going to charge $249k/year for it.
That's how capitalism works.
Well, they're going to charge $20k/year at first, during the land rush phase. Wait for some competitors to die off. Keep it low a while longer to kill off the incumbents. Then it'll jump up a bunch, before finally being even more expensive than the original thing.
See also: Uber & AirBnB.
Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.
@GossiTheDog Here's my best attempt at a list of the bad versions:
- supports-hyperlinks 4.1.1
- chalk-template 1.1.1
- simple-swizzle 0.2.3
- slice-ansi 7.1.1
- error-ex 1.3.3
- is-arrayish 0.3.3
- wrap-ansi 9.0.1
- backslash 0.2.1
- color-string 2.1.1
- color-convert 3.1.1
- color 5.0.1
- color-name 2.0.1
- ansi-styles 6.2.2
- debug 4.4.2
- chalk 5.6.1
- supports-color 10.2.1
- strip-ansi 7.1.1
- ansi-regex 6.2.1
- has-ansi 6.0.1
Edit: updated with confirmed versions from author who was pwned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169794