<![CDATA[Hear it from #BigTech itself:]]>Hear it from itself:

Using is more expensive than paying human employees.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/1a807a18-e452-41a1-b377-a82e8be00cbc/hear-it-from-bigtech-itselfRSS for NodeFri, 19 Jun 2026 13:24:10 GMTSat, 23 May 2026 17:03:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hear it from #BigTech itself: on Sun, 24 May 2026 07:18:42 GMT]]>@villasbc @AliceStollmeyer exactly. You could read that between the lines, this is so vague. I know the person coming up with titles is often not the person writing the article. So they might not match perfectly, but here, the article has no coherent argumentation in the wider area of the title.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/users/prefec2/statuses/116628332406800602https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/users/prefec2/statuses/116628332406800602Sun, 24 May 2026 07:18:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hear it from #BigTech itself: on Sat, 23 May 2026 23:21:16 GMT]]>@prefec2 @AliceStollmeyer I’d even say that the little line of argumentation is plainly wrong. Microsoft telling engineers to switch from Claude Code to Copilot shouldn’t even count as scaling back AI. Copilot is an AI product…

And Uber saying that they burned through their 2026 budget before mid year also doesn’t mean that they’re scaling back, the opposite really.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/villasbc/statuses/116626455035587823https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/villasbc/statuses/116626455035587823Sat, 23 May 2026 23:21:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hear it from #BigTech itself: on Sat, 23 May 2026 21:43:48 GMT]]>@AliceStollmeyer I've read the whole article. It sounds like an AI generated it or a very distracted or overworked journalist. There is no straight line of argumentation to support the claim from the title. The text sounds like Microsoft is turning to another product to save money. Other sections dwell on token prices and their use. While the text hints in the direction that AI might be more expensive than a human. It is not a water tight argument.

(I am not saying the title is wrong)

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I read about half of the article and so far it does not support your post

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/failedLyndonLaRouchite/statuses/116625792326216963https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/failedLyndonLaRouchite/statuses/116625792326216963Sat, 23 May 2026 20:32:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hear it from #BigTech itself: on Sat, 23 May 2026 17:28:31 GMT]]>@AliceStollmeyer Not the 9 o'clock News: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

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