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Companies told us AI would replace human workers and cut costs. Turns out the math doesn’t work. An Nvidia VP just confirmed that compute costs for his team exceed what they pay their employees. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. And a startup CEO ran up a $113,000 monthly AI bill, with a four-person team.

This episode breaks down exactly why AI is costing companies more than the humans they laid off, what “tokenmaxxing” is and why engineers are doing it, and whether any of this spending is actually returning anything. Because at some point the ROI question stops being awkward and starts being a board-level emergency.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They claim they can apply Lora's to it, and that at a data centre scale, it will pay for itself in a year vs existing GPU methods... but who knows if any of that is true.

They'd need a pretty good recycle process set up to get rid of cards that are no longer useful after a couple years as well.

But ya, maybe this is future future, once we have these amazing models that don't need to be changing often.

Edit: and some models would be better suited for it than others. A creative writing model is less likely to suffer not being updated as frequently as a programming model for example.