alt.hn

5/29/2026 at 12:49:05 AM

Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/microsoft-data-suggests-using-ai-225900743.html

by voxadam

5/29/2026 at 1:56:01 AM

Nothing factual in this article, only suppositions and possibilities with reference to MSFT getting rid of claude and Doordash CEO comments a week prior, as the title clearly ..suggests.

by x______________

5/29/2026 at 10:17:21 AM

[flagged]

by KolibriFly

5/29/2026 at 2:44:42 AM

It's anti AI though, expect it to be on the front page shortly.

by NewsaHackO

5/29/2026 at 3:30:45 AM

As opposed to pro AI

by ares623

5/29/2026 at 7:32:46 AM

Hire competent people, give them tokens. The two axes are complementary, not competing.

by dantodor

5/29/2026 at 9:53:07 AM

Literally, it's exhausting to have people parroting "It's more expensive than humans", complete non-sense, many people lack the ability to extrapolate even a tiny bit it seems like?

by addedGone

5/29/2026 at 10:37:08 AM

Right.

Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.

by plmpsu

5/29/2026 at 9:14:17 AM

The real problem: token overuse triggered the pullback "after internal incentives pushed teams to compete on AI usage." Incentivised to burn money, they burnt too much.

by norome

5/29/2026 at 6:26:08 AM

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

by ChrisArchitect

5/29/2026 at 8:59:24 AM

You linked the full discussion for Microsoft capping claude, TFA mentions Doordash and suppositions, titles don't match.

Dupe sensors need calibrating.

by x______________

5/29/2026 at 2:30:46 PM

The first Fortune source linked in this article was previously marked as dupe here and directed to that Verge discussion. Most of the discussion on this is there, 6 days ago.

by ChrisArchitect

5/29/2026 at 1:20:15 PM

not exactly a dupe but definitely closely related.

by fouc

5/29/2026 at 5:04:54 AM

In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.

by alexgotoi

5/29/2026 at 10:03:20 AM

Yeah but at least early industrial machines consistently outperformed humans on a specific task. With LLMs it's still a weird mix of brilliant moments and completely unreliable behavior

by KolibriFly

5/29/2026 at 10:24:51 AM

token prices are dropping fast though so this comparison has a short shelf life

by ElenaDaibunny

5/29/2026 at 9:52:31 AM

[dead]

by KolibriFly