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Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
These are not flying cars, but batteries that are 5 times cheaper in 10 years is impressive. I don't know much about farming but it looks like now, tractors do most of the job, and the guy in the cab is just checking to see if everything goes well. Farmers are still needed, be we need less and less of them for bigger and bigger fields.
Seems like a giant waste, where is my thorium power plant? where is my new battery tech? where is my fleet of robot farmers?
I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
Operations should not be R&D, but everything else certainly is. Why wouldn't it be?
You want to give tax breaks for real research and development of new things.
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That seems reasonable. The D does stand for Development.
Not sure. The D in R&D stands for, I imagine, development of the business, whereas the one in software development stands for development of software.
I believe Amazon classifies all costs of software engineering under R&D.
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Operations should not be R&D, but everything else certainly is. Why wouldn't it be?
Because you don’t want to give tax breaks for another todo app and another off the mill CRUD that nowadays can be generated by GPT or could be copied from a template and adjusted. Using a template and adjusting or generating with GPT already sounds more like operations. You want to give tax breaks for real research and development of new things.
I get that they have high R&D costs but I'm still trying to get my head around how that money is being spent.