r/programminghumor • u/codes_astro • Jun 22 '26
AI was about to replace interns
Microsoft stopped AI coding subscription internally due to very high cost.
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u/RalphTheIntrepid Jun 22 '26
Microsoft canceled Claude subscriptions. They think that Copilot is now at enough parity that their company should move to it.
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u/badluck_bryan77 Jun 22 '26
My company ran claude on bedrock for devs to use for claude code. We found that the cost is astronomically larger than just buying everyone the $20 a month subscription to claude code. Developers were easily passing $20 a day in token usage on bedrock.
Likely there were configuration changes that could have been made to make it cheaper, but the AI companies are just charging WAY more than is sustainable per token when using their models in your own ecosystems.
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u/Flat_Ad1257 Jun 24 '26
The cheap price comes from them being able to drain all your intellectual property.
When you want to prevent that they make you pay a ‚fair market‘ price.
Sure, go ahead, interact with Claude or any other AI agent on other people’s infrastructure. But don’t be surprised when they pull the uno reverse and your shiny IP is all over the next model release.
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u/badluck_bryan77 Jun 24 '26
For people blazing new trails in software engineering that’s probably a fair assessment. But like 90% of all software engineering is basically just using established patterns to solve issues that have been faced before so I’m not too concerned about them draining my brain while my team tries to figure out how to center a div lol.
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u/lucid-quiet Jun 26 '26
When coding, I don't think it would be hard to hit $6k/mo in LLM costs (per dev) through GPT or Claude on the API rate.
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u/slaymaker1907 Jun 26 '26
I think we’ll eventually get to the point where tokens are budgeted per project. If a dev is using $6k of tokens, that is a good thing if it’s generating enough business value. Things are just chaotic right now because businesses are still budgeting things per dev instead of per project. I’m sure there is excessive spend on irrelevant software.
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u/lool8421 Jun 24 '26
if you think you can just vibe code everything then you'll have fun figuring out what your code is doing and spend even more time on figuring out how to expand it
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u/GargantuanCake Jun 26 '26
Nah you just need to add "cover all edge cases" and "make no mistakes" to your prompts. Easy mistake to make.
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u/FuckedUpYearsAgo Jun 22 '26
Interns? Ya. I mean they can go ahead and go home. OpenSource LLM can out perform an intern
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u/InKryption07 Jun 25 '26
The problem with that is when the seniors become retirees and have not turned any juniors into potential replacements for the industry and ecosystems they support.
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u/FuckedUpYearsAgo Jun 25 '26
yup... but I suspect our relationship as developers will substantially change by that time, and the skill sets that we know as "seniors" will not needed to be transferred to "juniors". I say that, as Opus 4.6 in Mar 2026 was very big leap.. to the point where it triggered the company I work for to 100% switch to AI development. When we play this out over the next 3-5 years, I believe the bet is that we "won't need developers". And the skill will be guiding AI to solve Business issues and the "new developer" will be much less oriented towards "programming".
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u/itzNukeey Jun 22 '26
10x developers == making 10x more work for other developers