I just finished talking to a dev manager friend of mine at a household name company.

He told me they are massively pulling back on the AI stuff.

Right now the lashback is about cost, because that's the most easily measured pain point.

Soon, we'll start seeing a deeper understanding of the quality issues. At that point, it's likely this whole experiment gets firmly put in a bin of the toolbox where it belongs.

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icedchai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I know people at medium size companies where they are tracking AI costs very carefully. They are pulling back to levels under $100/week in AI spend per engineer, encouraging use of lower quality, lower cost models, etc.

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vidarh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can run models near 24/7 per developers at that price with judicious choice of subscriptions, so that's not really saying much.

Most people don't yet have mature enough setups to fully exploit that level of use.

	▲	icedchai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		With open models, perhaps. But $100/week isn't going to get you 24/7 use of Claude Sonnet.

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decimalenough 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't doubt you, but $100 is approximately the cost to company of one hour of dev time. If companies end up being willing to spend only 2% of their dev budget on AI, this bubble is not going to last long.

	▲	icedchai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree. $100/week is absurdly low if you want to allow for any real experimentation and productive use of these tools.