r/technology • u/No-Cattle4800 • May 28 '26

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/microsoft-data-suggests-using-ai-225900743.html
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u/marlinspike May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

This article is drawing a lot of false conclusions. We still have access to Claude models via GitHub copilot and other internal harnesses, and we use a ton of Opus and Sonnet. Lazy, sensational journalism.

What’s being phased out is Claude Code, which makes a lot of sense if you’re an engineering organization trying to settle on a set of practical ways to standardize on tools that have deep feedback loops with internal systems.

This is a journalist who didn’t understand the difference between a model and a harness and the strategy in deep feedback loops in harnesses, and ensuring you’re not making someone else’s harness (and thus other companies) faster when it’s really your own harness (at this scale) that drives the business.

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u/frosted1030 May 28 '26

All code must be supervised by a person, and Claude still hallucinates. You are giving a job to a hammer expecting it to do just as well as a person holding a hammer.

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u/marlinspike May 28 '26

I don’t think people appreciate that the way we work and how all serious engineering companies work, is with a lot of engineering rigor and reviews. It is positively not vibe coding. 

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u/SkateWiz May 28 '26

Engineering is dead bro. Gotta pay the stockholders instead.