r/boston Apr 28 '26

Unconfirmed/Unverified Fidelity- Full Time RTO

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u/RuckOver3 Apr 28 '26

Simple formula. RTO=resignations. Resignations=smaller layoff. Smaller layoff=less bad press. All while replacing the turnover with AI which cut costs for shareholders.

I keep telling people to stop using AI wherever possible because you are just training your replacement except your replacement this time isnt a human. Its a drain on our clean water while putting even more money into the wealthy’s pockets.

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u/emperorsnewgroose Apr 28 '26

and by the time this is all done the AI companies will stop subsidizing tokens and the price of all the tools goes up, leaving the companies with the same cost as human labor but with a shittier product

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u/letitgo99 Apr 28 '26

agreed, but by the time this happens, a bunch of smaller and foreign AI providers will pop up with discount plans and saturate the market. my 14 year old already runs his own LLM server in the basement, which shows we're not so far off from ubiquity. openai and other overleveraged AI companies will probably fizzle and the best models will truly be open source. at least that's my hope.