Had a look at "multi-agent coding" today.
Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.
A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.
Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.
@tommorris some guy yesterday joined one of my discords and was bragging about how he ported some very specialized game editing software using Claude and it "only" cost him £200 a month. he would listen to no reasons why that was a completely fucked up thing to be doing.
