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I'm sorry, but that's insane. I mean, I guess if you have cash to burn I could think of even worse ways to spend it, but seriously, this is dumb. What other t
by krupan 5mo ago
I'm sorry, but that's insane. I mean, I guess if you have cash to burn I could think of even worse ways to spend it, but seriously, this is dumb. What other tool have businesses spent millions of dollars and person hours on to try and find something useful the tool can do?? Talk about a solution looking for a problem! If it's not clear in the early stages that this tool solves a problem then ditch it and move on! Give that extra cash to your employees and shareholders instead!
- paulhebert 5mo agoEvery dollar your company gives to AI providers is a dollar they're not paying you.
- andrekandre 5mo agoits also a dollar that is most likely going to busywork and not towards anything customer-facing/improving...
- onion2k 5mo agoNo it isn't. My salary won't increase if the AI budget reduces, or if the AWS bill goes down, or if the board decide not to do a retreat to Davos this year, or anything else. My salary is very strictly limited by the salary budget. The only impact of a reduced AI budget would be an increase in dividends to shareholders, but that would have a second order effect of making the company less valuable because our competitors would be racing ahead of us.
- paulhebert 5mo agoWhy not? There’s only so much money to go around. Wouldn’t a big new expense affect how much is available for the salary budget? I’m sure it differs between companies but there seems to be a big trend of laying off workers while pouring more and more money into AI. If every company is using AI to compete they’ll still get the same slice of the pie but they’ll spend more money on AI and have less money for salaries