Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees

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Post by SLHamlet » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

Re: Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees

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Post by alexgotoi » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

This is the worst flex ever, its like going in a vacation and posting about how expensive the flight ticket was.

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Post by bayarearefugee » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

They don't hate spending (other people's) money.

They just really, really fucking hate the labor force they view as little more than cattle.

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Post by akomtu » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

2046: The planetary AI brags it spends more natural resources on machines than it spends on humans.

2126: AI brags that it's reached 100% efficiency in Earth utilization after it's eliminated all organic life.

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Post by throw0101d » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

Cloud computing versus on-prem is often about OpEx versus CapEx.

Is the reported behaviour an example of OpEx/CapEx but with humans?

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Post by t0mas88 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

The example company is selling some AI thing. Feels very much like all the blockchain / crypto people using crypto.

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Post by sevenzero » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

Why would you brag about something that dystopian while also ensuring people know that you don't know how your product looks from the inside?

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Post by lousken » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

Are they running their own models or just channeling money to anthropic or google? (answer is unfortunately the latter)

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Post by rebuilder » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

It’s like a trucking company bragging about how much fuel they’re using.

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Post by Aurornis » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

AI coding startup CEOs writing LinkedIn posts trying to normalize huge spending on AI tools? Nothing surprising here.

> Amos Bar-Joseph, the CEO of Swan AI, a coding agent startup, wrote in a viral LinkedIn post recently