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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The tech debt always gets paid one way or another. Either preemptively, as part of ongoing maintenance; or after a data breach in the subsequent lawsuit and settlement; or in the slow, inexorable trickle of increased infrastructure costs and lost business from slow dependencies and ineffectual bandaid solutions.

[โ€“] Windex007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Another payment option is not tackling it at all and just "paying the interest" by having a larger engineering team to wrangle the beast than you would otherwise have needed.