Dude my nephew was telling me this an AI company galytix is literally running on Indian grads and claiming to be ai what a scam
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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Is this AI jim?
Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.
I didn't get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it's not, just costs us more money.
So why the hell is the presentation acting like it's a fucking victory?
Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.
They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.
They are giddy because its almost time for payday.
payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense
This is something that changed in the industry; it was a investment back then.
I wonder at what point government will tax AI use by companies similarly to payroll taxes and incomes taxes.
If they pay an AI company $150,000 a month to replace $50,000 in salaries, the government then loses all that income tax from the previous employees as well as the payroll tax on $600k a year.
At some point capitalism will fail but it will take much longer than we think...
I don't understand the AI remake of Jim's face.
At least some times Rohan gets it right, and they get it more right over time.
Besides do you have any idea how many Rohan(s) we can afford at $150,000/month?
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Total cost of employment is something like 140-160% of salary for a software dev. So my super handwavy half pulled out of my ass math puts it closer to 20 jr. engineers.
In France it's more like 200%. minimum. Which is why our salaries are so shit when compared with US ones.
But the new trend is hiring interns which are much cheaper, work twice as hard, and come with tax deductions.
Less than half of what I hoped for.
You forgot the 1/3 part (hope that is the brain part)
A whole riders worth.
I meeeean yeah, but also there are just some people who don't work out
I do prefer that over bots on everything tho. It's getting rather exhausting
Tokenmaxxing goes brrr
And Rohan will answer!
Is the face AI morphed or something? It looks uncanny valley weird.
Jim halpert looksmaxxing in 2026
Dasgustin
I don't think it registered until I read your comment. Maybe compression artifacts or something? Either way, I don't like it.
Definitely was. Changed has lips, nose, even his hair.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/db800eba-6e5e-4bd5-8950-6a5e2c8ab73a.png
I expected the Mr. Bean Photoshop version 😂
We should unionize and eat the useless managers.
Rohan should demand at least double that to return
I'm unclear what Rohan is in reference to. Can I get an explainer on that element?
Rohan is the junior data scientist they rehired cause it’s cheaper than AI.
rohan is a common indian name
Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor! Ride for ruin, and the world’s ending! DEATH!!
This is where my brain went, and I'm like "Naw that can't be it".
Of course its just racism.
Well, you know, horses, grasslands, Wormtongue - Rohan!
See also Mohinder, Rashid and Vishal.
Exactly. Managers live in a golden age right now where social media automatically blames their fuckups on AI.
And they still don’t earn money except the pickax dealers. Also, I’m out of popcorn
Even with the most expensive subscription, that's about 750 devs being serviced by that amount of API money. I think 1 Rohan isn't going to get you much.
Subscriptions are moving to usage based. Ain't gonna be $200/month/Dev soon. Gonna be $3-4k/month/Dev.
And once the AI actually have to earn money instead of burning billions each year, it's gonna become a lot more expensive still and then more and more each year. Line must go up after all.