r/replit • u/skill_tree • 8h ago
Question / Discussion It's now cheaper to pay a software engineer than use Replit
To be generous, let's call this an even $2 a minute. That's $160 an hour.
A highly competent mid-level software engineer comes in at around $100 an hour.
This was for a one-line fix that a junior on their first day could have done.
I'm seeing exaggerated charges like this more and more all the time. And I've been around long enough to remember when a job like this cost 10 cents at most.
They say the trick to boiling a frog alive is to slowly increase the temperature one degree at a time so they don't notice. This frog is starting to notice.
They keep this up and there's gonna be a lot of frogs leaping out of this water pretty soon.
