RMB 20,000 for Outsourcing vs RMB 2,000 in AI Tokens: Programmers Will Not Disappear Overnight, but They Are Being Repriced First
A V2EX post claiming that RMB 2,000 worth of AI tokens can outperform RMB 20,000 of outsourced development is not enough to prove that AI has replaced programmers. But it is a useful signal: the cost model around software work is changing faster than many people want to admit.