But add another employee or 2, or God forbid increase benefits and they burn you at the stake.
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Well every job i have worked at requires me to not use ai. Is this all private companies?
I use an LLM as a glorified search engine at work. Basically to search thousands of pages of documentation and tickets to get context before approving something. 2-3 prompts amounts to a dollar. Imagine doing that several times a day multiplied by thousands of employees (because everyone is mandated to use AI). And that’s a simple task, not even coding yet.
Nice. I've been making various models create QR code generators that only work within a terminal. Then they collapse when I tell them to make the code hardened against exploits.
I would love another season or two of Silicon Valley to roast the latest techbro bullshit.
It was an incredibly prescient show, too
Mike judge always delivers.
"Here's why:"
...
Is it because you're dumb?
It's cause he's a bot account doing marketing for Anthropic
It's to "Swan AI", so I assumed they were happy about the invoice because they're reselling that service to suckers for a lot more than that.
My company has been jizzing themselves that our token usage has gone up.
I’ve never seen so many people rushing to add a middleman into their product dev.
My company is going wild like this too. I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster and thus we’re making more money.
But they go weirdly quiet when devs ask if AI has actually been speeding up the time to get a finished product in front of customers. You know, the only metric you should care about?
I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster
This AI you speak of - is it in the room with us right now? Because if you mean to say LLM slop machines, then "code is being written faster" does not imply the code is in any way useful.
That's an... interesting correlation they're making, more code = more money. I know it's not you personally making that comparison, but man is it strange. That's a very business school way of thinking.
What good is "more code" from the LLMs, if I have to scrutinize it for bugs and vulnerabilities? More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I've tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn't get the product to the end user faster anyway.
I'm just ranting and this a minor point, but speed is also not the only metric I would care about. I'd also care about making sure the user doesn't experience many bugs - preferably no bugs at all. The classic engineer's triangle still holds: "Fast, Cheap, and Good: choose 2." And AI seems to pick "Fast" twice. XD
You could hire twelve senior engineers in Europe for that kinda money
oh shit, I thought it's per year initially, I am considered a senior dev in a lot of setups (8yoe), worked remotely for European companies (hence European standards on code quality), hold PhD yet my monthly salary didn't cross 4k yet, you can hire an army of me with this.
Oh yeah, but can an army of you draw me as a Ghibli character? Checkmate, liberals /s
Congratulations, you make around as much as a barista in Boston! Wooo
There are developers making over 100k a month just building AI at these AI companies. The entire point is to eliminate anybody doing knowledge work that isn’t at the bleeding edge of understanding. It’s commoditizing a skill that commanded a huge premium, but is way overstated in HCOL areas.
If it isn’t AI taking the tech jobs, it’ll be India and other countries where they make even less than you but can do the job because they are no less capable. We’re all just meant to be servants to our billionaire masters anyway. They don’t care how many people have jobs, so long as that they pay as few of us as little as possible to get what they want. They don’t care if a handful of us are paid like royalty so long as it’s less than how much they would have paid all of us otherwise.
Yeah I was about to say. I'm an American software engineer at 10 years in the industry. That number is roughly my yearly salary, and they're talking monthly, so that's like 12 of me. From what I've noticed in online job searches, European positions of roughly equal experience and skill levels get paid somewhere between 30-50% less. Is that because of the stronger welfare systems? Or maybe the differences in cost of living, which could vary based on country and region?
The cost of living varies a lot not only from country to country, but from city to city within the same country. But yes, it's the safety net that we have here. You don't go bankrupt if you have a medical emergency, your health care insurance isn't tied to your job, child support is better (varies by country), worker rights are stronger (varies by country, but on average it's better than the US), secured paid maternity leave, vacations, sick leave, etc. Generally speaking, if you live in Europe but work for a US company, you basically hit a lottery. As a software dev, at least.
That's 12 fairly decent engineers' salary
Is AI really 4x-ing productivity at his company? Even the optimistic estimates don't even have it as a 2x improvement
It's baffling to me that people who's entire career hinges on them displaying a level of extreme competence, just tell on themselves like this.
It's a company that sells 'AI' services to their customers. Most likely the major part of the 113,000 dollars is paid by those customers. They're basically resellers.
Tokenmaxxing
good business is when bankruptcy
thats a lot of money for inherently Flaude Code
this whole industry is completely unsustainable
I really wanna see his reasoning
our AI bill just hit $113k in a single month (we’re a 4 person team). i’ve never been more proud of an invoice in my life. here’s why…
at [FuckYour] AI, we’re building the first autonomous business - scaling with intelligence, not headcount. and the only way to prove that thesis is to build a truly agentic solution ourselves.
When your business + product are truly agentic - AI costs can compound.
Our goal is $10M ARR with a sub-10 person org. We don’t have SDRs, and our paid marketing budget is zero..
but we do spend a sh*t ton on tokens. that $113K bill? A part of it IS our go-to-market team. our engineering, support, legal.. you get the point.
And our product reflects the same philosophy.
[FuckYour] AI is the first coding agent built for GTM professionals, not developers.
Over 800 companies signed up in the last 40 days. and they’re not relying on us to build their GTM workflows - they’re building with [FuckYour] themselves.
that’s what building a truly agentic product + business looks like.
costs compound. but so does scaling with intelligence.
and the craziest thing?! this is prob the smallest our AI bill will ever be..
follow along to see where the next one lands!
Edited out company name cuz fuck them
Fucking morons.
Yeah idk what i was expecting. I was thinking maybe they had really good reasoning but true to the community....
AI costs can compound
As anyone who knows the value of compound interest can tell you, this is NOT a flex lmfao
this is prob the smallest our AI bill will be
lol. lmao even.