The fact that AI is more expensive still comes through, even though Microsoft does not state this explicitly.
Inference is affordable, and you don't need a SOTA proprietary model to get a lot of use out of this technology. While you likely will still need a human engineer for quite a while longer, I don't agree that some number of humans + an LLM is going to be (or will ever remain) more expensive than just hiring more humans.
I feel like vibe coding is less of an issue than vibe leadership at this point, and vibe leadership has nothing inherently to do with AI. These people are getting a vague feeling in their giblets, and then chasing it to the illogical conclusion no matter the cost or outcome.
Or train your own power efficient stack.
Hearsay information and click bait.
What if companies both don't see a large return on investment, and at the same time can't reduce their AI spend?
It's the same reason Teams got so much attention during lockdown.
nreece•36m ago