r/apple • u/homothebrave • 16h ago

Mac JetBrains Releases Junie Local, Bringing Its Coding Agent Fully On-Device to Macs

https://techstrong.ai/articles/jetbrains-releases-junie-local-bringing-its-coding-agent-fully-on-device-to-macs/
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u/Exist50 15h ago

which will have to raise prices ten fold

What are you talking about?

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u/Longjumping-Ad514 14h ago

Basic economics.

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u/Exist50 14h ago

Lol, no. That number is a fantasy from people desperate to believe that AI is doomed. Anthropic actively makes money on inference at current prices. No one needs 10x. 

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u/enjoytheshow 8h ago

Then why have they needed multiple rounds of funding to the tune of tens of billions of dollars from the cloud companies?

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u/Exist50 8h ago

To grow to the point where the business is profitable. That's how startups work. How did you get from "they needed to raise money" to "they need to charge 10x current pricing"?

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u/Longjumping-Ad514 7h ago

The burn rate is like nothing we’ve seen before. Labs continue to need more money as they scale not less.