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Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
43•nreece•53m ago

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nreece•36m ago
http://archive.today/l3EEo
missedthecue•26m ago
Literally nowhere in the article does Microsoft report AI is more expensive than paying human employees.
tovej•18m ago
There may be a word missing in the post title. Should be "Microsoft reports show AI is more expensive...".

The fact that AI is more expensive still comes through, even though Microsoft does not state this explicitly.

scronkfinkle•25m ago
The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. It turns out that when you make a metric out of token usage, it unsurprisingly ends up becoming extremely expensive.

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.

leecommamichael•17m ago
I kind of doubt they ever needed the number of humans they have, but I am genuinely open to being wrong about that.
andwur•13m ago
They may as well have just said: Company institutes an OKR that the IT division must spend over $1000/day/developer (fictious number). Company is surprised when IT division is costing far more than it did before. Company increases this to $1500/day/developer to build a system to identify why this has happened.

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.

baron816•4m ago
The media seems hellbent on torching AI. My news feeds are nothing but stories about the evils of data centers, how useless AI is, and how much everyone hates it.
Readerium•18m ago
For MSFT: Just download DeepSeek locally and use it.

Or train your own power efficient stack.

chopete3•13m ago
>> Microsoft has reportedly begun canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses

Hearsay information and click bait.

lacy_tinpot•5m ago
Say AI is very expensive and costs a lot. What happens when no one can or is not willing to actually do the work manually?

What if companies both don't see a large return on investment, and at the same time can't reduce their AI spend?

bentcorner•4m ago
The premise of this article is incorrect - MS isn't cancelling Claude code internal usage because of AI costs too much, they're cancelling it because GitHub copilot is the compete product and they want their employees to use their product.

It's the same reason Teams got so much attention during lockdown.

upbeatlinux•2m ago
Is that why GitHub is always down?

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