2min chapter

The Times Tech Podcast cover image

Fixie.ai's Matt Welsh: "The 12-cent engineer"

The Times Tech Podcast

CHAPTER

The Cost of a Professional Software Engineer in the Bay Area

Imagine a future AI model that could do the same thing again. It's only generating a hundred lines of code a day What does that cost well today using the existing GPT 3? Model pricing from open AI if you do the math it works out to about 12 cents. If a machine can automate these processes and it's 10,000 times cheaper than a human You have to look at that very seriously.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode