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AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires, sparking corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

I don't know if a lot of tech needs to hire back.

I think many CEOs will see it that way. Better to underhire and ride their slop code base into further customer loss, data breaches, lawsuits and bankruptcy, than put up a weak quarter while something can still be done to save the business.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Has any data breach ever significantly hurt a company financially?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Hard to say, for sure, in each case. There's often plenty of factors that could have been key. Fuck-ups tend to fuck up in a variety of interesting ways.

    An obvious seeming one is Roomba's infamous leaked person-on-toilet picture. I didn't stop buying Roomba because I doubted their engineering. It was their (lack of a) Privacy team.

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