Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

(finance.yahoo.com)

66 points | by voxadam 2 days ago ago

17 comments

  • x______________ 2 days ago ago

    Nothing factual in this article, only suppositions and possibilities with reference to MSFT getting rid of claude and Doordash CEO comments a week prior, as the title clearly ..suggests.

    • undefined a day ago ago
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    • KolibriFly a day ago ago

      [flagged]

    • NewsaHackO 2 days ago ago

      It's anti AI though, expect it to be on the front page shortly.

      • ares623 a day ago ago

        As opposed to pro AI

  • dantodor a day ago ago

    Hire competent people, give them tokens. The two axes are complementary, not competing.

    • addedGone a day ago ago

      Literally, it's exhausting to have people parroting "It's more expensive than humans", complete non-sense, many people lack the ability to extrapolate even a tiny bit it seems like?

    • plmpsu a day ago ago

      Right.

      Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.

  • norome a day ago ago

    The real problem: token overuse triggered the pullback "after internal incentives pushed teams to compete on AI usage." Incentivised to burn money, they burnt too much.

  • ElenaDaibunny a day ago ago

    token prices are dropping fast though so this comparison has a short shelf life

  • ChrisArchitect a day ago ago
    • x______________ a day ago ago

      You linked the full discussion for Microsoft capping claude, TFA mentions Doordash and suppositions, titles don't match.

      Dupe sensors need calibrating.

      • fouc a day ago ago

        not exactly a dupe but definitely closely related.

      • ChrisArchitect a day ago ago

        The first Fortune source linked in this article was previously marked as dupe here and directed to that Verge discussion. Most of the discussion on this is there, 6 days ago.

  • alexgotoi a day ago ago

    In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.

    • KolibriFly a day ago ago

      Yeah but at least early industrial machines consistently outperformed humans on a specific task. With LLMs it's still a weird mix of brilliant moments and completely unreliable behavior

  • KolibriFly a day ago ago

    [dead]