The AI Shake-Out Has Begun: Cut Waste, Fix Process
"Exploring AI's accuracy, Amazon's job cuts, open-source models in China, and tech giants' soaring expenditures!"
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Good Morning and Happy Tuesday. Welcome to issue 36 of The Tech Stop.
Exploring AI's accuracy, Amazon's job cuts, open-source models in China, and tech giants' soaring expenditures!
AI succeeds with code 80% of the time, but for the remaining 20%, Quality Assurance becomes disproportionately important. AI-assisted workflow requires human oversight. More.
POV: With AI, good processes get better, bad processes accumulate technical debt. Train staff that AI is a draft, not the end product.
Amazon makes huge job cuts to remove bureaucracy. It will likely reallocate resources to AI and data centre buildout. More.
POV: Corporate overhead is becoming automation investment. Identify administrative functions that can be consolidated or automated in the next 12 months.
Businesses are switching to Chinese open-source models for better accuracy and lower costs. More.
POV: Cut AI costs whilst improving results. Evaluate open-source models before defaulting to US vendors.
Meta and Microsoft's projected capital expenditure for 2026 has increased significantly, to fund AI data centre infrastructure — AI tool and compute costs will fall significantly as more capacity comes online. More.
POV: Delay commitments and favour short-term contracts.
And just for fun — Flappy birds on Acid. Next week, we are going to go for a futurology link.
Have a great week y’all, see you same time next week 🙌
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