On: Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

[lenerdenator]

At this point we're solidifying a lot of stuff for the product: disaster recovery, getting workflows to scale so we can actually sell it to more people, paying off the Fort Knox of tech debt, so, at least in my case, yeah. YMMV.

[NichoPaolucci → lenerdenator]

I'm in a similar boat. When I joined my current company the tech was this 700KLOC legacy behemoth stuck in 2005. It was pretty much all tech debt.

With agents I've been able to make a decent sized dent in it. Lots of this gain is due to AI - but the fact of the matter is we still have 50+ bigger projects we could work on, and non-developers building with AI has increased that number.

Busier than ever, because of AI.

[Gigachad → NichoPaolucci]

That’s not the original question though. Are there more subscribers to the product now?

Certainly more change is getting done, but is the market paying more for it?

[NichoPaolucci → Gigachad]

No, our sales are up slightly YoY. The system is more stable than it has ever been. Customers are more happy.

Some of our AI tooling IS “generating revenue”, but not most of it.

Much of it is workflow efficiencies and general improvements.

One of our big initiatives is cutting out the CRM we use. It’s going to save about 30K a year to do that in house.

Our AI bill is going to be sub 30K USD this year, and if you asked the CEO if there was a return on that investment I believe they would be positive.

But, I am 100% sure there are multiple companies wasting money on AI and dialing it back because they are NOT getting a return.