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Firstly why would you pay API prices when you can use the subscription plans for 20x less
Secondly that much API spend would require dozens of senior engineers using it full time, like you'd be doing the work of an entire, quite large engineering team not a single junior
There's layers to the meme. It's also about how junior engineers are often overworked and underpaid.
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
AI: Actually Indians
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 it's a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc
Also, I've been noticing more and more APIs are adopting a policy where they get rid of any unused credits that you've paid for at the end of the month, creating a 'use it or lose it' FOMO mentality.
All very normal and sane.
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.
Huh, it's been an operating expense since, let me check, the dawn of business?
"Investing in" your employees doesn't make a ton of sense when they could just hop over to the next company after a year, much like loyalty in a company doesn't make sense. It's all a business transaction in the end so if you can get a better deal, you should.
The unfulfilled promise of AI is to reduce the expense to a minimum so the few remaining people can accomplish the same work. That's more of an investment than paying people to work for you until they find a better job ever was. In theory.
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.
Uh they'll just claim the AI is being used in another country then?
There's really no way to definitively decide the tax jurisdiction of an AI agent.
Good luck figuring this one out without a tax on unrealized gains in companies and good luck figuring that one out for companies if they can just scheme around it by reinvesting all their profit indefinitely.
A special 50% AI services tax for the company selling access to the AI might work though. Like VAT, but don't let companies claim it back. Good luck defining what AI is legally though.
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.
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
Maybe it's just me, but it look like poor compression
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.
