Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
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Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#2I do find it to be true that with coding agents the famous quote from Jurassic Park goes through my head multiple time a day
"our scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to ask if they should.
I've now come to the realization that if I'm having an llm work constantly all day writing code for me i'm probably doing something wrong as I'm no longer focusing on the core issue itself.
I may be in a minority here in that I write code to augment my self and not to ship to others so I can tell very quickly if I'm just gold platting something or if i'm actually delivering real value to my trading or risk management.
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#3I still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me.
So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#4Goodhart's law strikes again. Stop giving your engineers token-burning quotas or they'll burn tokens.
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#5I still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me. So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?
Apparently:
* In App Hotel bookings in partnership with Expedia.
* Travel Mode with suggestions on where to eat and visit when travelling.
* Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination.
* Voice bookings using AI and speech to text.
How did we ever live without them!
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#6Goodhart's law strikes again. Stop giving your engineers token-burning quotas or they'll burn tokens.
I really don’t understand on the customer side of B2B why so many companies actively encouraged AI tooling costs.
I can understand it from the side of the companies selling tokens and AI hardware. I don’t understand the race to spend more on internal tools.
I’ve been sitting around waiting for my company to buy a number of necessary bits of tools. They cheap out on every solution imaginable. Datadog is too expensive, let’s buy a cheap solution that costs us months of setup time. Configuration management is too expensive, let’s use the free version with no audit trail or dashboard.
But everyone…in the entire company…gets multiple AI tool subscriptions.
I don’t remember investors being this stupid at any other point. I don’t recall investors pressuring my company to use blockchain or NFTs.
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#7Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#8Goodhart's law strikes again. Stop giving your engineers token-burning quotas or they'll burn tokens.
I really don’t understand on the customer side of B2B why so many companies actively encouraged AI tooling costs. I can understand it from the side of the companies selling tokens and AI hardware. I don’t understand the race to spend more on internal tools. I’ve been sitting around waiting for my company to buy a number of necessary bits of tools. They cheap out on every solution imaginable. Datadog is too expensive,…
Nothing that C-execs and management advocates for has made any sense for a long time now. If this is the first you're starting to question it all, I must ask what rock you're sleeping under because I desperately need a really good nap...
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#9I still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me. So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?
Apparently: * In App Hotel bookings in partnership with Expedia. * Travel Mode with suggestions on where to eat and visit when travelling. * Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination. * Voice bookings using AI and speech to text. How did we ever live without them!
> Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination.
This seems like the kind of terrible idea that an LLM might have come up with. I'm pretty sure most drivers do not want people eating (especially a whole meal) in their car, and I can't imagine a lot of instances where you're calling an Uber and don't have time to get yourself food, but don't mind waiting an extra 10 minutes for the driver to detour, find parking, and wait for your food.
Re: Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
#10I still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me. So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?
Apparently: * In App Hotel bookings in partnership with Expedia. * Travel Mode with suggestions on where to eat and visit when travelling. * Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination. * Voice bookings using AI and speech to text. How did we ever live without them!
Holy fuck, aside from the voice bookings, that's some useless shit to spend money building as far as both tokens and salaries go.
Are they profitable yet lol