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

TomServo

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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.
 
TJT

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The costs of getting spitroasted by paying Claude Code (or whoever) for models and licensing and then paying AWS to operate the models is going to be absolutely insane.
 
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Neranja

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TJT said:
The costs of getting spitroasted by paying Claude Code (or whoever) for models and licensing and then paying AWS to operate the models is going to be absolutely insane.
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It is the razor blade business model: Lure you in with a cheap "starter pack", only to then fleece you with the subsequent blades. And some time later offering you the next model, now with one more blade.

Worked wonders with inkjet printers and standard software licensing (e.g. Adobe).
 
Noodleface

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I actually stopped using the windsurf IDE today because it was so bad and went back to vanilla VSCode. Told my boss the company can shove it .

From what I heard Google tried to buy windsurf, then instead just poached the founders and left the shell of a company
 
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