so microsoft spent 3.4 billion dollars on making the worst operating system in history even worse? looks like ai is good for something after all
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@Inginsub That post is incoherent. First he talks about Microsoft, then Uber, then says a guy with a subscription can get more use out of AI, after laying out at least one case where companies burned through their budgets way ahead of schedule.
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>The playing field isn’t leveling. It’s inverting.
The post was written with AI.
The post was written with AI.
the thing he is quote posting also references both Uber and MS.
his claim is that they didn't "burn through" but rather that accounting sets limits that are too low and stifling the work of engineering.
which is nonsense of course. actually, management set limits that are too high so engineers had to recklessly burn tokens to seem productive until accounting stepped in
his claim is that they didn't "burn through" but rather that accounting sets limits that are too low and stifling the work of engineering.
which is nonsense of course. actually, management set limits that are too high so engineers had to recklessly burn tokens to seem productive until accounting stepped in
Yeah what this points to is not that AI is super-productive but rather that their engineers have shut their brains down and are trying to have claude to their entire workload for them
He means that the pricing structure is bullshit. Corporations are starting to pay something close to the real price of running LLMs and it's a disaster. Consumer plan prices are unsustainable and if this wasn't being heavily subsidized they'd be at least an order of magnitude higher.