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.
Wait, we’re not tokenmaxing anymore? So when the AI salesman said to make a leaderboard of people spening the hardest, it was to line their own pockets with cash? Huh. Color me surprised.
So next, you’ll tell me that it costs more to have an LLM produce the same quality of code as a senior developer.
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.
€19 sounds like a per user subscription deal, but I didn’t think they were available to commercial customers anymore? What am I missing?
it’s 19 USD, not €. got confused. I think it’s this one https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing-and-usage/organizations-and-enterprises/seats-and-billing-cycles
Wait, we’re not tokenmaxing anymore? So when the AI salesman said to make a leaderboard of people spening the hardest, it was to line their own pockets with cash? Huh. Color me surprised.
So next, you’ll tell me that it costs more to have an LLM produce the same quality of code as a senior developer.
sounds like they are creating another excuse for another round layoffs.
AI is coming: Time to lay off people
AI is costing too much: Time to lay off people
they are already in the middle of one. (huge It consulting company)
But you better keep that output high. In hindsight this was so obviously gonna happen