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Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?

6•Snakes3727•5h ago
Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans.

Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend.

Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans.

I have tried some local models such as Kimi, however most are barely functional.

I am very concerned as the expectation of amount of work done is to remain consistent. Ignoring the fact teams have made entire workflows around Claude I am very worried and frustrated.

How can I help my team ease this transition? Are their local models that run well on local machines that only have 16gb ram?

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itg•5h ago
The 16GB of RAM will really limit you, what about trying OpenRouter and using the cheaper models such as Kimi instead of running them locally?
Snakes3727•5h ago
Given our field we cannot really use anything not approved by management. Pretty much if it doesn't leave our machine we can use its just i don't find anything good. We even have some new devs on the macbook neos, and i can't even find anything for them.

I was considering having something run locally within out building but the time when something like that would be avaliable is not near term so i am trying to make the best of what i can do.

baigy•5h ago
Specifically: to explore your opensource options with compute limitations, ask the community at r/LocalLLaMA on reddit. That's where the current SOTA opensource text-to-text models live.
Snakes3727•5h ago
Yeah i was looking there earlier, its just we thankfully mostly have macbooks, but i recently found out new devs are getting the smaller 8gb ram macbooks as well. Which is going to be even more frusturating.

Since my team is mostly remote running LLM on a cluster in the office is not really viable short term.

baigy•5h ago
This is totally going to suck, but here's one option I was just suggested a few mins ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1th1mqx/comment... For context, I was asking about running anything OpenClaw-friendly on my RTX4060 8GB VRAM. I know yours is a more involved use-case, but there's still some optionality here.
xvxvx•5h ago
My own company hired a young goon of a man to spearhead their AI initiative. Lots of smiles and arrogance from him. Fast forward 2 months and reality has hit. Weekly meetings asking for feedback draw blank stares as employees explain that Claude can’t do shit to help their workload. This kid is starting to sweat. I bet he’ll be gone by the summer. Hilarious.
Snakes3727•5h ago
Unfortunately at my company leads have no insight into employees claude code caps, and no one has ever complained until now. Apparently some people were basically running with insane caps on CC (25k+), if you asked for it you were approved. Which lead to some people doing insane things on CC for no purpose.
baigy•5h ago
Just setting up better SOPs around using AI for coding is going to help them a ton. They can chalk off the sunk cost to a "learning phase", with now being the time to use the lesson learnt to formulate some future-looking standard operating procedures. No need to suddenly go cold-turkey on AI. My 2 cents.
LogicCraft678•2h ago
Long term approach is probably to use AI as a tool that boosts productivity
SashaMApps•1h ago
With Anthropic's prices it soon will be cheper to hire real people then "hire" their models. If you use it for codding I'm pretty sure you will not be able to find any model which can be hosted on local machine and produce more or less acceptable results. Options - use something more cheaper, Deepseek for example, or if company big enough think about hosting some open source on you private DC with GPUs, I know that some companies develop their own solutions, but I don't have good enough expirience to tell how mach it may cost