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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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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 23 hours 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).