• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Techbros didn’t even invent that shit.

    That and “disruption” was just going into an existing market, flooding it quickly with cheap prices, and the second you squeeze out competition jack up rates.

    It’s the same thing Walmart did.

    With AI they offer it cheaper than humans because they’re burning investor cash and not making money. Once a company fires staff, their next AI contract switches to per token price instead of monthly unlimited.

    And then suddenly realizing the “rockstars” that kept their job because they were AI experts, were just sitting at their laptop 8 hours straight constantly prompting over and over again. After that they’re paying more than they were before AI with a shittier product and completely unpredictable workflow completely reliant on AI usage.

    Hopefully we’re reaching the point even c-suite execs figure it out. Once they do it’ll pop.

    • jumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      the only problem I see with that theory is that the employee count reduction might let them go below legal limits requiring more bullshit making it cheaper to pay more for Ai than the people it replaced because you have less regulatory nonsense.