IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

TJT said:

I haven't yet heard of any company opting to run open source AI on their own datacenter or AWS to save money paying Claude Code and the like.

Today, right now, paying the freemium rate is LOTS cheaper. But that is a fuse on a bomb. One just long enough that leadership today doesn't see what's happening.

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The performance goals necessitate the extreme quarterly thinking. thus AI accelerated to hell and Cloud migration to eliminate capex so he meets his goals for his bonus. it is absolutely not long term a good idea. We are not running AI on our on hardware. we are using aws bedrock to run a slew of different models.

Bro. That feel