Post #1616572
2026-04-23 06:10 UTC
> Expensive institutions are eaten by cheap substitutes, who are capable of doing only one thing the institutions did;
You would be surprised to learn that this is not, in fact, a passage about AI :awkward_look_monkey:
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@flaki@flaki.social 2026-04-23 06:13
(I mean they are not cheap *at all*, for sure!) > To simplify, this means that some companies are spending as much as 10% of the cost of their employees on generative AI services, all without appearing to provide any stability, quality or efficiency gains, or (not that I want this) justification to lay people off. > [...] > A flat 10% bump on the cost of software engineering is the direct opposite of what AI was meant to do, and in the event that costs continue to rise, I’m not sure how anybody justifies the expense much further.