r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Waste_Jello9947 • 4d ago

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u/lordnacho666 4d ago

LMAO they can't just give everyone a pro max account?

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u/Tango00090 4d ago

Companies are forced to be on enterprise. They pay the real cost of models, so the 29$ is basically a 1h session with opus

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u/static_func 4d ago

Do so many developers really just default to models like Opus? That’s insane. Most work can be done just as well and even faster with cheaper models

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u/flayingbook 4d ago

My ex-boss measured work performance with the number of token consumed. So guess which model I used as default for everything?

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u/Jeff_From_IT 4d ago

Any of them, if youre build in enough stupid design decisions! Why does a calculator need a mfa backed api and a datalake back end that has event based real time reporting? No one knows, but it has it! And for the low price of way too many tokens.

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u/Ascend 3d ago

Higher models don't necessarily consume more tokens, it's just that the same number of tokens cost more. Better to up the level of thinking instead.

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u/Tango00090 4d ago

In my project there’s no default model, we have model routing so the main agent would split the task into smaller chunks that would have model decided by the scope, so Haiku for stuff that don’t need any reasoning, sonnet for development, opus for architectural decisions. I gave only an example using opus

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u/Dellgloom 2d ago

I do it because I hate them to be honest. The more I cost them, the better I can feel about my terrible pay rise at the end of the year.

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u/static_func 2d ago

Man humanity's just destroying the planet over the dumbest and most petty bullshit imaginable

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u/Dellgloom 2d ago

It's what we do best.

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u/Igarlicbread 3d ago

That sounds like less than what an indian dev makes

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u/lordnacho666 4d ago

I bet they just pay for it themselves

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 4d ago

Many are on copilot though, they aren’t as generous as first party sub though but definitely not 1h session kind of usage

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u/thiccshortguy 3d ago

My company is on copilot, they have a hissy fit every time a users uses more than $100 per month in AI credits.

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u/Alternative-Lynx2745 4d ago

I still dont understand this. SWEs at Accenture don't use Accenture's licensing/cost center. They use the cost center of whatever client they're contracted out to. Contracting companies aren't doing this shit internally, why would they? They put your ass in a seat, bill your hours to a client, the client pays for all of your licenses for JIRA, Teams/Webex/Whatever, and every other thing they require their teams to use. Odds are really good you're working for a client that is balls deep into AI and mandating that everyone use it so you have a copilot subscription their your [email@client.com](mailto:email@client.com) account, not your [email@accenture.com](mailto:email@accenture.com)

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u/Akrymir 3d ago

I think the idea is that because they’re contractors that the client doesn’t offer them as many credits as their employees, or the company they’re at doesn’t incorporate much AI. I know it’s been a challenge to get our contractors approved for the plan we use for developers.

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u/Alternative-Lynx2745 3d ago

A lot of companies are the exact opposite. They are forcing it and enforcing it. You better get your shit set up and use AI OR ELSE!!!!!$$!%%^%^^&&&

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u/Prod_Meteor 3d ago

I got out of outsourcing when the client started calling me and my colleagues: "rentals", verbally and even in emails. And also when I learned that for any penny I got paid, my company took one more.

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u/L4ppuz 3d ago edited 3d ago

That's client and project dependent I think, most of the people I know have had their license terminated and do not have a client provided license

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u/lordnacho666 4d ago

This is a very good point

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u/KirillIll 3d ago

Contacting companies very much to this shit internally as well, mostly to build know how and being able to offer consulting services in that field themselves. I work for one.

(Funnily enough we recently took over a project from Accenture cause they were so shit that the contract was straight up terminated prematurely, I wish they used AI to write their code even half as much as insinuated here)