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Yeah, you don't live in the EU.

I would not be surprised if they have engineers vibecoding 2-3 projects each simultaneously, nonstop, on largely un-moderated review-suggest-iterate-test feedback loops.

All the code gets summarized and fed into their manager's agent contexts, probably duplicated several times across levels and departments, with some generated back-and-forth emails pinging around the org chart, eventually generating 2-3 long-winded reports that nobody will read chock full of generated visualizations that can all get consolidated into a generated slide deck that they'll show (maybe, at some point) to a handful of humans with more money than a human brain can conceptualize to demonstrate all of the innovation they're doing.

I am increasingly convinced that many of these companies are dead trees whose only function is to burn money lest it fall into the hands of the peasantry.

Reading the headline

Oh that's actually really economical! I wonder if they're doing a lot on locally running models or managing a shared context or knowledge-base in some clever way, maybe just encouraging employees to be efficient and mindful.

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each employee

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per AI coding tool

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I noted that my own token usage comes to about $1,000/month against each of Anthropic and OpenAI

What on this godforsaken earth are all you rich idiots doing???

personally know american scientists who are well into the process of relocating their work to institutions in canada or europe

The current US administration is already on the multiple-decades level of cleanup, and looking at the political group nominally tasked with doing said cleanup, the more likely answer would seem to be "never".

JUST ASKING QUESTIONS (Easy: Failed)

A thing can be both technically legitimate and also annoying and shitty.

I think the idea is that a Forgejo/Gitea instance should never have to work at anywhere near the scale of GitHub. Codeberg provides its Forgejo host as a convenience/community thing but it's not being built to be a central service.

Companies like Microsoft should not be given "incentives to exist" anywhere (at least as they exist currently). They are corrosive to the public good.