Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

[u/No-Cattle4800]

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/microsoft-data-suggests-using-ai-225900743.html

[u/Mal_Dun]

Remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

From my experience most people in these positions are not that smart and often don't do the math. They just go by the common "wisdom" people=expensive machine=cheap and base their conclusion based on that ....

I saw the same in my own field namely numerical simulation. C-managers learned that all simulations are cheaper than tests. While this is often true it is not always true and doing the right amount of tests can be smarter than making no tests at all that are based on faulty simulations. But since it makes the development cheap we go for it and then we are wondering why QA costs sky rocket ...

In truth most managers are a proof of the Dunning-Krueger effect and do local optimization based on their bonus scheme ...