Re:Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Business...
by sanderjd on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:50AM
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Yeah I agree with this. I have my own preferences (augmentation, which is obviously right, because it's my camp and I wouldn't be in that camp if it were the wrong one, duh!), but I'm glad there are so many people doing so many different things and debating each other about it. That kind of messiness is the only way to figure this out.
Re:Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Business...
by 1223975 on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:46AM
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The no-AI people are in eagle mode! We watch stupid corporations failing despite the largest propaganda campaign in history. The latest Hail Mary:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-says-he-...
That will fix adoption of a broken technology and all debt issues!
- full autonomous camp
- developer augmentation camp
- no-ai camp
The trouble I see with all of it is that the future seems unpredictable at the moment. The costs related to AI are low enough at the moment that full autonomous seems to be possible, but we have reasons to believe that costs will rise significantly, which may change that calculus. The no-AI camp is in ostrich mode, and is betting on this all going away once the bubble pops. The developer augmentation camp treats it like just another tool, which is somewhere in the middle.
The trouble is that even if there is a clear advantage today, the ground truth of costs built in is probably not stable.