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Comment by paulhebert

15 hours ago

Every dollar your company gives to AI providers is a dollar they're not paying you.

No it isn't. My salary won't increase if the AI budget reduces, or if the AWS bill goes down, or if the board decide not to do a retreat to Davos this year, or anything else. My salary is very strictly limited by the salary budget. The only impact of a reduced AI budget would be an increase in dividends to shareholders, but that would have a second order effect of making the company less valuable because our competitors would be racing ahead of us.

its also a dollar that is most likely going to busywork and not towards anything customer-facing/improving...