Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI

Post by consumer451 » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #30

Spooky23 wrote: post #16

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It’s a forcing function. If you are running a company you need to be in control. Some engineers dngaf or will sandbag everything. We did a 90 day push and identified where we found value and where we didn’t. Our tools teams really upped their game, more than expected, and it would have been unlikely to have been funded if they tried to justify the budget as an individual initiative. There’s a spectrum of people - som…

Exactly. People misunderstand the point of the tokenmaxxing time period, it was to force people to use AI so as to not have them stuck in their way, as some people are, and then to evaluate how it can help the company.

Post by mdp2021 » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

jordanb wrote: post #19

mbgerring wrote: post #4

The only path forward is to get LSD into the water supply at Davos and put on a really scary play about Rokko’s Basilisk for all the money people, or else Sam Altman won’t be able to afford to repair his infinity pool

They need a new acronym: AGI -> ASI -> Artificial Mega Intelligence AMI? Maybe go back to AGI but make it mean Artificial Godlike Intelligence? It's too bad Altman already blew his wad with the whole Dyson sphere thing. It's hard to top that. Maybe he can promise them a paperclip universe? That's gotta be worth a few more trillion.

Post by vehemenz » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

Blackthorn wrote: post #22

rhyperior wrote: post #15

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Is censorship not an issue with Chinese models?

It's about whether or not their censorship affects you . Their models are censored for the Chinese audience. Meanwhile Anthropic OpenAI etc models are censored for the American audience. So by default you'd be better with one of the Chinese models if you're American.

Post by vel0city » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

codemog wrote: post #39

bestouff wrote: post #6

Nowadays I don't understand why you wouldn't use a (more-or-less) nearby hosted Chinese model. You have the security, you have roughly the same performance, and you have an order of magnitude more bang for your buck. Bonus point : the models aren't censored and won't refuse to answer in the middle of your coding session.

China bad. Or if you want to rationalize your xenophobia, you’d say the Chinese models will secretly backdoor your code and kill your grandma.

Post by vehemenz » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #30

Spooky23 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a forcing function. If you are running a company you need to be in control. Some engineers dngaf or will sandbag everything. We did a 90 day push and identified where we found value and where we didn’t. Our tools teams really upped their game, more than expected, and it would have been unlikely to have been funded if they tried to justify the budget as an individual initiative. There’s a spectrum of people - som…

Exactly. People misunderstand the point of the tokenmaxxing time period, it was to force people to use AI so as to not have them stuck in their way, as some people are, and then to evaluate how it can help the company.