you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

I watched a video that said that one of these decompiled vibecoded apps cost $180k in tokens on a $200/month plan

For that much you could probably pay a team of coders.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    No one paid that amount: it’s the dollar equivalent of the billions of tokens that were used by the LLMs. The “devs” only used a $200/month subscription to do the decompiling. This business model is why AI companies aren’t profitable since compute is wildly more expensive than what they’re charging users.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Ah. Hell even for $200 I'm sure you could hire someone freelance though

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago

    For an hour maybe. This kind of work takes a lot of talent. Or nowadays... a prompt 🤷‍♀️

    IDK this stuff is only gonna get better. It's gonna be crazy seeing what code is being put out in a few years by these tools.

  • source
  • parent