<![CDATA[If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down.]]>If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. Will you still be able to do your job?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/6e520ee3-1752-48d9-9c02-f8ab126a56b8/if-the-ai-companies-raise-their-prices-100x-tomorrow-or-shut-down.RSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 03:25:39 GMTTue, 02 Jun 2026 05:06:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:06:40 GMT]]>@pheonix It'll mostly be dealing with the fallout of every team losing access to their tooling, and resetting ways of working along with expectations.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116683492592563281https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116683492592563281Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:06:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:02:57 GMT]]>@pheonix
they have been auditioning an AI to help answer questions at the virtual call center where I work from home. The bosses now have a short hand thumbs up or down emoji if we can trust the answer or no. Guessing they picked that instead of promoting someone to help.

I have yet to see a single thumb up and haven't see it post all day. Probably in timeout somewhere.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.party/users/Crystal_Fish_Caves/statuses/116683477954188066https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.party/users/Crystal_Fish_Caves/statuses/116683477954188066Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:02:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:14:28 GMT]]>@pheonix How they will shut down my ollama installation?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sciphy.de/users/oelschle/statuses/116682579549205692https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sciphy.de/users/oelschle/statuses/116682579549205692Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:14:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:02 GMT]]>@pheonix I'm somewhere between 1 and 3. Technically, it would be very easy for me. There's nothing really that I use AI for that I don't already know how to do. However, since AI became common in my workplace, the amount that's expected of me has increased dramatically. The adjustment would come from re-establishing my new level of capacity.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/willrc/statuses/116682168913759268https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/willrc/statuses/116682168913759268Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:19:45 GMT]]>@pheonix A problem, perhaps that you are alluding to, is that there will be such a drastic system change that changing back would be like going from that combustion engines back to the horse. And yet, about the only farmers still prospering are the Amish and other Old Order Communities.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/LaughingCoyote/statuses/116679297332480729https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/LaughingCoyote/statuses/116679297332480729Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:19:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:01:33 GMT]]>@pheonix mastodon seems to be quite a bubble..

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/jcolomb/statuses/116679225781660957https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/jcolomb/statuses/116679225781660957Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:01:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:40:59 GMT]]>@pheonix where is the option for "I will laugh and say 'I told you this was coming'" ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mspcommentary/statuses/116678908959132361https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mspcommentary/statuses/116678908959132361Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:20:20 GMT]]>@pheonix While I can count myself lucky that no-one tried to mandate it directly ...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678827750739306https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678827750739306Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:20:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:19:46 GMT]]>@quincy I can only imagine having to navigate that on a day-to-day basis.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pheonix/statuses/116678825536919109https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pheonix/statuses/116678825536919109Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:19:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:17:52 GMT]]>@pheonix In the beginning, it was just management and a few "early adopters", but now it's widespread and also comes up all the time in conversations, which is tiring.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678818045313355https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678818045313355Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:17:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:16:25 GMT]]>@pheonix No, but it's everywhere and it's utterly destroyed the workplace culture for me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678812350343428https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678812350343428Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:16:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:11:05 GMT]]>@quincy does your workplace mandate any such use?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pheonix/statuses/116678791380330666https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pheonix/statuses/116678791380330666Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:11:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:07:09 GMT]]>@pheonix

Both one and four, with a bit of three (but only because I'll need to re-adjust to a situation where the day job is fun again! guess it won't take long though)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678775893080950https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/quincy/statuses/116678775893080950Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:07:09 GMT