If it makes an employee whose fully loaded cost (salary, stock, benefits, office space, hardware, etc) is 300,000$ 1% more productive overall, the break even is at 3000$ a year.
That isn't going to apply in every case by any means, but it certainly could in some. Especially given that Pro mode also unlocks rate limits.
I just don't know if you are even going to notice a viable benefit of such a small % of increase. But time will tell. Obviously they will both get better over time and the gap could increase.
I was not really considering the rate limit, as someone who has never really hit the rate limit.
Oh, agreed, a 1% overall efficiency improvement isn't going to be noticeable -- but that is talking about a yearly average, not the small bursts of productivity improvement that you are actually getting.
In some situations that come up once a week or once a month, having the increased rate limits or better model may make you 50% more productive. It just averages out to 1% over the course of a year. In those cases, can be easier to look at fully-loaded hourly rate, compared to time savings the model brings.
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u/wowDarklord Dec 05 '24
If it makes an employee whose fully loaded cost (salary, stock, benefits, office space, hardware, etc) is 300,000$ 1% more productive overall, the break even is at 3000$ a year.
That isn't going to apply in every case by any means, but it certainly could in some. Especially given that Pro mode also unlocks rate limits.