> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools
I believe this is incorrect. I pay for many tools, but I would not pay for Kite. The problem is not that developers don't pay for tools, but that Kite, or AI-assisted code, does not address a pain point. It's a slight improvement, but I don't feel pain when I need to write code without it.
That's different from something like CI tools that I pay for. When I need to wait long for CI to finish I get annoyed. That's when I pay.
I believe this is incorrect. I pay for many tools, but I would not pay for Kite. The problem is not that developers don't pay for tools, but that Kite, or AI-assisted code, does not address a pain point. It's a slight improvement, but I don't feel pain when I need to write code without it.
That's different from something like CI tools that I pay for. When I need to wait long for CI to finish I get annoyed. That's when I pay.