this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
1128 points (99.5% liked)

Technology

86189 readers
3137 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
1128
Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
submitted 1 day ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
197 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 45 points 22 hours ago

Here is how it has gone down for a few companies I have visibillity on:

  • Investors with enough stock to have influence demand the company use AI and cut staff
  • remaining ataff struggles to fit AI into their now bloated workload
  • quality slips and stumbles. a few employees are able to make the transition and cause huge AI bills while attempting to cover the workload
  • everyone gets upset and nothing gets done well

It looks like investors who have also invested in AI are trying to push its use and it is stumbling all over the place. If a company cant adapt it is basically stripped for parts and sold off to companies that are handling it better.