Buy a $10 app or build it with a $100/month coding agent? It depends on your hourly rate
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-14
iamtrask quips: "why buy an app for $10 when I can build one for free with my $100/month coding agent and a couple of hours?" Yoav Goldberg replies: "depends on your hourly rate, I suppose."
The exchange neatly captures the classic vibe-coding fallacy: treating AI coding tools as free labor while ignoring the subscription cost and the opportunity cost of your own time.
Related event: Researcher Jokes: Why Buy a $10 App When a $100/Month Agent Can Build It(2 posts)→
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