The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. It turns out that when you make a metric out of token usage, it unsurprisingly ends up becoming extremely expensive.
Inference is affordable, and you don't need a SOTA proprietary model to get a lot of use out of this technology. While you likely will still need a human engineer for quite a while longer, I don't agree that some number of humans + an LLM is going to be (or will ever remain) more expensive than just hiring more humans.
For MSFT: Just download DeepSeek locally and use it.
Or train your own power efficient stack.
Literally nowhere in the article does Microsoft report AI is more expensive than paying human employees.
There may be a word missing in the post title. Should be "Microsoft reports show AI is more expensive...".
The fact that AI is more expensive still comes through, even though Microsoft does not state this explicitly.
The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. It turns out that when you make a metric out of token usage, it unsurprisingly ends up becoming extremely expensive.
Inference is affordable, and you don't need a SOTA proprietary model to get a lot of use out of this technology. While you likely will still need a human engineer for quite a while longer, I don't agree that some number of humans + an LLM is going to be (or will ever remain) more expensive than just hiring more humans.
For MSFT: Just download DeepSeek locally and use it.
Or train your own power efficient stack.
Literally nowhere in the article does Microsoft report AI is more expensive than paying human employees.
There may be a word missing in the post title. Should be "Microsoft reports show AI is more expensive...".
The fact that AI is more expensive still comes through, even though Microsoft does not state this explicitly.
http://archive.today/l3EEo