Comment by solenoid0937
2 days ago
The problem with HN is that everyone here thinks like an engineer, not like a business owner.
$10k a month on tokens is just not that much when you're already making $2M per engineer. If their productivity has increased even 10% then the spend was well worth it.
Case in point, Meta made 33% more revenue this earnings report. Now you can nitpick and ask for attribution down to the dollar, but macro trends speak for themselves.
Go look up a multi-year chart of their revenue and find the inflection point where the AI made it go up faster (there isn't). In fact revenue growth used to be higher pre-2023.
They were also a lot smaller pre-2023, 33% growth for a company of their size is simply insane. It is entirely likely that 33% simply wouldn't have happened without AI.
Motivated reasoning
lol. AI just started in the kind of usage being discussed in this thread, how would it make any difference on something that is quarterly reviewed