Are you getting the AI budget you need to make your new productivity goals?
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If HY is performing as usual the answer would be "not very much, but WF is paying a fortune for it". I've never seen a company get less for a dollar than WF. Literally every person that has been making purchasing decisions in the last 5 years should be downsized or termed. We get robbed every single day by our own vendors.
That feels a little bit like asking what we spent on Windows on 1998. It’s not “AI” anymore, it’s just “work”. We don’t say we used a calculator to do math, or a word processor to write a document, or PowerPoint to create a presentation. I don’t tell people I “used copilot/chat/claude to…”. I just tell them I did it.
@k5 my team isn't part of IT and we each use AI all day for all kinds of things (research, analysis, doc review, etc.). are you saying that type of usage doesn't cost a lot? serious question, i really have no idea.
I wouldn't worry about this too much. Outside of tech, probably 10% use it for something other than a fancy Google search.
I burn through my tokens in an hour and am left with d-mb models the rest of the day.
@ec, I would rather get my directions from an AI agent than from the clowns that run this place.
i realize this is all obvious and unoriginal but i am seriously concerned about how dependent we're all getting on AI to do daily work and the very real-seeming possibility that it will be yanked away from us once the costs get too high to sustain it. especially since so many people are getting laid off or fired in the interim. by the time the bill comes due, it'll be way too late to try to change course. but our brains will be mush and we won't be able to do the most basic things on our own. i already feel it happening but am powerless to stop it. the deluge of work just keeps piling up and AI is the only way to make a dent. we're creating a world in which nobody will know how to do their jobs without AI and there's no guarantee we'll always have access to it. and there's no way to opt out without drowning in work. scary. happy hallow-effin-ween.
No clue what my LOBs budget is but I'm using AI basically for everything at this point. If they want AI usage, they're gonna get it 100%
@cm Right…… just like TK was supposed to be the AI queen. So what is it that she is actually good at?
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Don't worry about it.
Saul's gonna fix it.
There's going to be plenty of surprises next year when we've spend all this money on AI and all the other d-mb things and they're complaining about expenses.
wrong question: Are you getting an ROI on the current spend.