My company is at the July stage. Who knew giving people unrestricted access to Claude enterpise with no training would blow through budgets in days

Everyone who was paying attention even a little bit has known this would be the trajectory from the beginning. And we haven't even gotten to the crazy price hikes per token that are coming.

Do we work at the same company??

I feel like we're co-workers, with how perfectly that timeline matched the day-job's progression.

We're at "did you take the seminar on looping that uses tokens like a firehouse so you can use less tokens? Why are you using too little (/not enough) tokens, and why is it not magically 10x-ing all of your (fucking ansible) config?" Or some shit.

Keep spending that shit left and right!

I just wish my company would start hiring again. I have been using the AI out of necessity, because we are short-staffed in certain areas. I've asked several times, directly, how much my AI use is costing and nobody is in a position to know. It's certainly helped in some areas but I want to build a case that hiring a college grad or two can help more....

After talking to some people who actually have been forced to work with AI on projects in teams Its been horrifying to find how little time they are given to build out proper safe guards, rules and test the process.

Management seems to be expecting these stupid robots to work the first time every time

Even in small projects for every 8 hours of work there's a good hour or two of adjusting memory, standing rules, hooks, and countless other things.

It's endless upkeep. Every shift in work flow tends to create knock on effects.

Management of the bot it self becomes a massive work load if you want them to be even remotely reliable.

I'm not surprised their use in a corporate environment is backfiring massively.

Yeah, turns out the executive class, the would-be nobility, are incompetent idiots by their own standards, and are primarily driven by their own malignant sociopathic narcissism, not any of the stories they tell about themselves.

If you want competent executives, they'd need an actually effective selection pressure that punishes incompetence and rewards competence... but they already destroyed that.

So, either we, or somebody, builds some mechanism or system that does that... or they all preen themselves rigourously while steering the ship directly into an iceberg, with all of us onboard.

They will genuienly not understand why we hate them for killing us all.

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.

€19 sounds like a per user subscription deal, but I didn't think they were available to commercial customers anymore? What am I missing?

now they are laying of staff? What, did they blow their whole budget out?

This is the thing that drives me absolutely nuts with how most people use LLMs at work. I'm fully capable of asking the LLM to create slop, I need others to actually check and ensure their documentation is useful and correct before communicating it with others.

What, you don’t want to read a 10 page doc made from a 2 sentence prompt?

Hahaha. No. Management is not losing jobs over this. Not in the quantities needed.

get rid of some bad management.

Good luck. Like cockroaches, they'd probably survive a nuclear holocaust.

Management is good at accumulating and maintaining power. Competence in actually getting stuff done doesn't really help with that.

Ding ding ding. It's fucking GREAT for eliminating the menial bullshit like scaffolding, data cleanup, sifting through overly verbose documentation... Anything that requires abstract thought still needs to be done by a human.

Recently in my team people are posting AI output for review, and others feed it into a chat bot and paste the result.

So which trade are you thinking of changing to?