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Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
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Re: Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
#12Hire competent people, give them tokens. The two axes are complementary, not competing.
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?
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#13In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.
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
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#14Nothing 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.
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Re: Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
#15token prices are dropping fast though so this comparison has a short shelf life
Re: Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
#16Hire competent people, give them tokens. The two axes are complementary, not competing.
Right.
Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.
Re: Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
#17Re: Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
#18[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896
You linked the full discussion for Microsoft capping claude, TFA mentions Doordash and suppositions, titles don't match. Dupe sensors need calibrating.
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.