2026-10-18 15:27 UTC
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@DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 03:20
“Companies are realizing”… … they’re not people.
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@Kushan@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 20:44
At our company, 12 months ago they said everyone wasn’t using enough AI. They even made a leaderboard to see who was using the most tokens in the business and encouraged more and more. A couple of months ago, everyone’s AI spend was restricted to $100/month without warning. Entire workflows broken overnight because people had built theirs around Claude skills that used stupid amounts of tokens. Now they’re starting layoffs. Go figure.
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@rozodru@piefed.world 2026-10-19 00:24
and this is why I’m retiring in two weeks. They don’t get it, they never will. my work as a contractor trying to code review their slop and telling them what they needed to change fell on deaf ears. they cut me a cheque, thanked me for my time, and it was onto the next company/startup to perform the same song and dance. i’m done. I’m done with the tech industry. 25 years just poof, gone. I’m in my mid 40s, i’m single, i own my condo, i’m done. I’m going to sit on my ass all day, play videogames, and clear out my codeberg and delete everything. I’m not even going to work on FOSS stuff anymore, i’m not going to maintain anything, I’m not going to contribute. I’m done. I want nothing to do with this crap.
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@themurphy@lemmy.ml 2026-10-18 15:56
The idea of AI is not the problem. It’s the execution. Both in it’s used wrong and that the people wont benefit. If we could all leave work 2 hours earlier because of enhanced production, we would all fight for this shit. But that’s not gonna happen.
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@Quazatron@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 17:24
January: We’re going AI native, please use AI as much as possible. March: Everyone needs to attend workshops on how to maximize AI productivity. July: Some models are only available for special (properly justified) cases. Speak to your manager. Turns out that some people did everything (even commits) with top cost models. August: Ok, we’re setting some limits on token usage, due to some people spending 1000% over the average. September: we are creating additional frameworks and limits to AI use. It took a bit of time for the actual AI cost/benefit to reach the top management and put some hard numbers in contrast with the hype machine, but it’s happening.
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 15:36
Ernst and Young say 36% of companies using AI have experienced catastrophic incidents. Hopefully some of them go bankrupt. That would be a stellar way to get rid of some bad management.
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@sanzky@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 20:37
they cut our copilot budget to 19€ per person (you can request more. but of course it’s a hassle) they still insist AI the future and more AI is better. they are just now shifting the blame to employees: “you need to think more about how you use it”, “you cannot just throw tokens at a problem”, etc two months ago I got an email from a manager asking me why my AI spending was so low.
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@dustyData@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 21:04
Remember when chatgpt first went viral and everyone said that “prompt engineer will be the new career path”. So, how’s that going?
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@Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-19 08:29
This is my own fault. I’ve been on Facebook for way too long honestly it’s been since 2007 200 I don’t know but now they won’t let me login. I guess I don’t know what I wanna do but these bastards need to die. I guess this is my reckoning gosh darn
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@tigermountain@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 11:28
I’ll admit I’m experiencing a degree of pleasure in thinking about how nervous Anthropic and OpenAI must be with their IPOs supposedly coming up.
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@fxdave@lemmy.ml 2026-10-20 08:25
Currently the market allows me to run the AI then do something else meanwhile, and still counting 8 hours work, and meanwhile delivering more than before with less work. It’s my personal Claude subscription and it doesn’t cost much. As long as it works and worth it I will use it. There are features in the app where code quality doesn’t matter, like a status page in admin panel. I can regenerate any time with a good prompt. And sometimes there are stuff where I need to use my coding experience, because it’s too unique feature. But still I’m faster, not just feeling faster.