"In economics, the Jevons paradox is said to occur when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource's use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource. Greater efficiency reduces the amount of the resource needed per application, lowering its effective cost; if demand is sufficiently price elastic, this induces demand, frequently resulting in a net increase of total resource consumption."
It's like you're so close to getting it. Xi is serious about "corruption" alright. It's just that in an authoritarian state "corruption" is really just used as a euphemism for illoyality.
They are saying what is generally safe and what is not. Telling people the dry statistics won't help most people. Remember half of all people are below average in IQ. You need to paint with broad strokes if you want to reach most people.
Making better software than my competitors and keeping my business afloat is my goal. I use whatever better tool gives me the edge.
I focus on doing better work for the most part. But there is also stuff I do now, because the SOTA models can handle it, that I would otherwise just wouldn't do.
Artists that need the best quality output use the best pens and papers. Call me a coding artist then haha. But seriously I don't have the time for anything less than SOTA.
If I am working on something simple and want the speed boost then I'll drop the thinking to low or minimal and still get the SOTA model output quality.
But for what I work on I mostly need high or xhigh SOTA model quality output. I don't have the time to deal with anything less.
I'm making a micro SaaS product. Code quality and code production speed are actually both super important. I don't have the time for non-SOTA model output.
Yeah I have both the Claude and Codex 100 dollar subscriptions and I try to use both. I also keep the 20 dollar Cursor subscription as there I can play around with everything. I also refuse to use any harness specific features. Claude is particularly annoying with this in that it's the only one that doesn't respect open config standards like .agents/skills
Ai won't work on it's own until we get agi.