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> if they hiked to price infinity, you wouldn't worse off than if AI didn't exist because you could still code by hand

This was addressed by the words that you perhaps mistakenly omitted from your quote:

> Once people won't be able to think anymore...

People who aren't able to think anymore, can't still code by hand. Think "Idiocracy".

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>People who aren't able to think anymore,

OpenAI and Anthropic have been getting stingy with their plans and it's only it's been what, 1 year, maybe 2 since vibecoding was widely used in a professional context (ie. not just hacking together a MVP for a SaaS side hustle in a weekend)? I doubt people are going to lose their ability to think in that timespan.

I think you're 100% correct that people won't lose the ability. There's a scary thing I see as a person who works with and recruits students and fresh graduates -- they might not have spent the time to get the skills in the first place.

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