Vishria: Replacing Developer Labor With AI Creates 20x More Economic Value
Eric Vishria · Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 25, 2024 · at 23:49
Benchmark General Partner Eric Vishria contrasts traditional developer tool budgets ($10k/year) against full developer salaries ($200k/year) to evaluate AI coding tool upside.
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“So if the AI, if you can get AI good enough to eat much more of the 200,000 dollars of value attributed to your software engineer, IT person, it just follows that there's like 20 x more value creation and, like, there will be giant, giant outcomes.”
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