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That was in the first calendar quarter this year. In the second calendar quarter CEOs started saying AI is too fucking expensive and let's stop doing it.

You’re now being forced to optimize your AI cost usage and produce the same results as before you cared about it.

maybe your C suite. ours just joined the hype train. We got an email a few weeks ago saying all new code must be ai generated by 2027 and introducing internal metrics for ai usage by team

There is no metric a reasonably intelligent person can't sabotage or subvert...

...for example, you can write a script to burn tokens and write the code yourself.

e.g. <https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn>

I’m currently in the middle of this process. I’m finding refusing to be working remarkably well, though I am also in a country with worker protections. Join a union.

I'm becoming convinced that mandatory AI use is a humiliation ritual, akin to neighboring tribes forcing Hebrews to eat pork.