lmaoo that's more than half of my salary and I'm pretty well-paid in my country.

Did you misread the numbers or are you a “well paid” junior programmer working in Nigeria?

Because here In northern Europe you couldn’t even have a completely untrained teenager working 4 hours a week at minimum wage at that level.

Mid-Senior in MENA. My monthly Salary is around 740 USD (Converted), and while I exaggerated that more than 50% figure, 200 USD/m is still a gigantic chunk of money to spend on something with dubious return on investment.

> gigantic chunk of money to spend on something with dubious return on investment.

There is nothing dubious about it. It’s providing verifiable value. Tasks that we would have set for developers or UX’ers last year are solved by it. At 1/50 of the cost, and with great scaling because the tasks are solved faster than you would even be able to explain them to a human and we can initiate 5-10 parallel tracks without having to onboard new people.

And sure it might not make sense to give a 200$/m AI tool to a worker you are paying 800$ but when we have devs that are paid 8000$/m then it’s great return on value to have one person being 10 times as productive at 8200$ instead of spending 80000$/m on ten developers just to be able to say we are doing authentic AI free artisanal software development.