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Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due

Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due - awful.systems

Microsoft will pay you tomorrow for a token today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260319-companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due [https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260319-companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due] - podcast time: 8 min 01 sec

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lurker 3d ago

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?

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YourNetworkIsHaunted

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).