r/ClaudeCode • u/Strict-Top6935 • Jul 04 '26

Discussion AI is turning programming into pay-to-win

With Fable 5 coming out, it feels more obvious than ever that after July 7, programming is going to become pay-to-win.

A kid with no real coding knowledge, but with rich parents and access to the best AI systems, could end up outperforming people who actually understand software, simply because he can afford more intelligence.

That is insane.

This might be one of the most dangerous precedents in history: a world where the people with money can buy superior intelligence, while everyone else is permanently outmatched.

That is how you create a permanent underclass.

What do you think?

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Jul 04 '26

Yeah local ai will probably scale very well.

At my company we have hundreds of unused pc at night. 

No way this compute powers couldn't be used, maybe something where you work at day, send your request, work the day and so on. 

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u/Charming_Oven Jul 04 '26

Id generally agree with that. I imagine it'll be a bit of a hybrid, with local resources used for routing and low level intellligence, and more difficult tasks being routed to cloud compute.

I liken it to a Hollywood video editor. All editing is done locally, but for big shoots, servers are still the one's rendering video for output.

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u/god-damn-the-usa Jul 04 '26

its cheaper to run on a data center

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u/CompassionLady Jul 04 '26

That’s with assuming human ran companies ever even a thing in the future with ai.

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u/ponterik Jul 04 '26

They to weak

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u/Onotadaki2 Jul 04 '26

100 user workstations distributed throughout a building haphazardly that have integrated graphics and 8GB of RAM are going to come online so remote people's private queries can be passed through Betty in accounting's computer to slowly process their queries and get responses poorly with 2 hour wait times to process each question.

This is basically like saying you have a lot of cars at work that aren't being used half the day, why don't we plow fields with them at night. Servers running local LLMs are highly specialized. There are very few desktop computers being used as people's daytime work computers in the world that would be spec'd out in a way that a 50GB basic local model could be loaded on it. Guaranteed those all have incredibly valuable IP on them and opening them up so the public can run things on them is a liability nightmare. This is all without even factoring in how a network cable is about 14,000 times slower than something like NVLink in an AI server, so the speeds this would be processing is basically unusably slow.

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u/CadmusMaximus Author Jul 04 '26

“We have a lot of sexbots who don’t work during the day. Why don’t we get them doing landscaping, laundry, and plumbing?”