Post #3285060

2026-05-31 05:53 UTC

Staff Engineer here. Our CTO told us in March two things. One, if we didn't get on board with AI then we would be unemployable in 3 months and two, we had to use AI for everything. Literally everything. I asked (as a senior engineer of 19 years) if that included simple bug fixes I see that take minutes vs 30+ describing the problem. The answer was "absolutely". Our budget is $400K /month to Anthropic and we exceeded that 3 weeks into May

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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-31 05:56

Pump those numbers, make them regret the decision. Also that’s an insane budget for AI.

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@Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2026-05-31 07:49

> Our budget is $400K /month to Anthropic and we exceeded that 3 weeks into May Fucking hell, that's so much money to burn on management's AI addiction. Have to wonder how your finance department feels about burning almost half a million a month. Also, wild that management is telling you that not letting your skills degrade by handing everything off to an AI is what'll make you unemployable.

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@StillAlive@piefed.world 2026-05-31 07:32

Burn that budget. Make the CFO pull their hair out when they look at expenses vs revenue. For once, bean counters might save us from this BS.

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@Grimy@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 06:38

400k a month is quite a bit of GPU power. I do not understand why software companies aren't at least offsetting their Claude usage with open source models running on their own hardware. It seems like a no brainer. Opus is really good but most tasks aren't that complex and a smaller model will work just as well.

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@criss_cross@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 12:31

Ours said the same thing back in December. Our principal engineer said we had to start using the chatbot for all coding. I’ve tried it but at some point it gets faster for me to do it myself 50% of the time. And some of the other times it’s just flat out wrong. The times it gets it right are great; but I hate feeling like I’m relying on a slot machine for my job. I just started using it just to commit and for PRs to make it look like I’m using it all the time. Burns tokens and execs can’t tell the difference.

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@Decq@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 07:34

Sometimes I'm sad I quit software development as a job. So much room for malicious compliance with this AI bullshit. And if something goes wrong you can just blame it on the AI you were forced to use. The fun I could have had..

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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 08:59

It's always the damn suits.

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