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YesCodex · 7 Jul 2026

AI continues to absorb my job as a senior systems software engineer (c/c++) and after a couple months I've only spent a few hundred dollars using gpt-5.5/5.6 and codex

01100011 on Hacker News

a few hundred dollars

In the thread “GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse”

Helped: Low cost relative to value and daily discovery of new capabilities.

I'll agree but from the other direction. AI continues to absorb my job as a senior systems software engineer (c/c++) and after a couple months I've only spent a few hundred dollars using gpt-5.5/5.6 and codex. I have no idea what people are doing to burn so many tokens but for me this is laughably cheap and every day I discover new capabilities. …