How Pakistani developers are using $2/month AI to compete with Silicon Valley
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How Pakistani developers are using $2/month AI to compete with Silicon Valley Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad. Three cities producing some of the best developers in Asia - developers who routinely outcompete candidates from expensive Western universities on Upwork and Toptal. But there's a tax on being born in Pakistan that Silicon Valley doesn't talk about. The AI pricing problem for Pakistani developers ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month. That's PKR 5,600/month at current rates. The average Pakistani software developer earns PKR 80,000-120,000/month.