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Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Microsoft will pay you tomorrow for a token today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260319-companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due - podcast

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[–] lurker@awful.systems 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the solutions proposed — I am not kidding — is “writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks.” It’s really funny imagining a software engineer being like “woah … like automating the boring stuff, you might say?”

If I'm getting this right, they're going to cut the cost of automating everything....by automating more things?

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Rather than use an LLM to churn through however many zillion tokens and parameters and do an ungodly number of matrix multiplications, maybe consider thinking about the problem and writing the relevant "if()then;" blocks yourself!

You know, like a caveman (according to these same bosses a few months ago).