Hacker News Reader

> the cost of developing software is plummeting

For now, until the frontier models decide to stop losing money and pass the real costs onto the consumers.

DeepSeek is presumably break even or better and costs 20-40x less than frontier models. Its intelligence is lagging the frontier by a lot, but its already plenty good to contribute to certain aspects of software development. There is a lot of opportunity to make model usage more cost effective for software development.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com