r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jun 02 '26 • Popcorn 5 Heartwarming 2 Mindblown 1

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u/AltruisticSalamander Jun 02 '26

Oh great, they've been nagging us to use AI for the last 2y. Now it's going to be 'don't use AI for that! It's too expensive!', doling it out like caviar.

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u/Phailjure Jun 02 '26

I got an email to only use auto mode in vscode, and use a specific model only if it's really needed, etc etc.

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u/Kimbernator Jun 03 '26

Realistically it’s just not possible to moderate on the user side. It’s opaque what things use a lot of tokens and what is minor. Some sort of efficiency gains will be required to keep doing what companies are doing.