[mkhattab]

These deal numbers have lost all meaning for me.

There’s been some buzz around the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which I visited last month. That project took 1.1 to 1.2B USD. Double its original budget estimate but still the museum looks fantastic and it feels, tangibly, like it’s worth a billion.

In contrast with all the money spent on AI, it just feels like monopoly money. Where’s the monument to its success? We could’ve built flying cars or been back to the moon with this much money.

[Aperocky]

I've been using AI and so did many people I knew. It's resulted in tangible difference in my life.

It's much less likely that I'd drive a flying car and there is 0 chance that I would be the one going to the moon if we spent the equivalent money on those things instead.

[malux85]

Me too, once you’ve had a lot of practice with it (like anything) and know how to mitigate some of its weaknesses, then it’s a superpower.

I currently pay 200 USD a month for AI, and my company pays about 1,200 USD for all employees to use it essentially unlimited - and I get AT LEAST 5x the return on value on that, I would happy multiply all those numbers by 5 and still pay it.

Domain knowledge, bug fixing, writing tests, fixing tests, spotting what’s incomplete, help visualising results, security review generation for human interpretation, writing boilerplate, and simpler refactors

It can’t do all of these things end to end itself, but with the right prompting and guidance holy smokes does it multiply my positive traits as a developer

[whycome]

I’d rather useful AI tools than a flying car or someone else going to the moon.

But I agree that the numbers are increasingly beyond reasonable comprehension

[paxys]

What percent of the world is going to set foot in this museum in the next few years? What percent has used or will use AI tools?

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

>it feels, tangibly, like it’s worth a billion

Lot of feeling going on in this comment, but that's not really how money works.