Once upon a time, there was this magical thing called “the cloud.” The cloud was a place where data centers were a thing of the past, all the system and network admins were unemployed, and you could just deploy anything, with the click of a single button.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago.
We’re in a meeting when one of the mid-level execs makes a comment about doing a project a certain way “in case we want to move off Azure.” He was serious too.
I nearly snorted my coffee out my nose because we are never going to move off Azure. They have us by the balls but it would cost more, millions more, to migrate to a different cloud provider.
But then from a cloud (and “AI”) providers perspective, thats the goal. They want you dependent on them to the point where you literally can’t afford to leave.
That’s because everyone’s managers are idiots it seems like you have to be an idiot before you’re allowed to be manager if you show any kind of gumption you’re automatically disqualified from applying. Every IT tech the world over has almost certainly attempted to explain to their bosses that this is an introductory offer, and Microsoft, or Anthropic or whatever AI company they were going with, will absolutely raise prices later on. Signing into a subscription you cannot afford to get out of, is an financially irresponsible decision.
They were all ignored. Of course they were ignored, managers who can barely operate a mouse always know better than their dedicated IT support teams with a combined knowledge of over a hundred years in the industry. Fact of nature.
Hopefully a bunch of businesses will now fail, people will realize that reliance solely on an AI is a bad idea, and if you insist on using an AI, relying on a subscription AI is an extra stupid double plus bad idea, and then perhaps we can move back to some kind of normality, and then I can buy a freaking graphics card.
Once upon a time, there was this magical thing called “the cloud.” The cloud was a place where data centers were a thing of the past, all the system and network admins were unemployed, and you could just deploy anything, with the click of a single button.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago.
We’re in a meeting when one of the mid-level execs makes a comment about doing a project a certain way “in case we want to move off Azure.” He was serious too.
I nearly snorted my coffee out my nose because we are never going to move off Azure. They have us by the balls but it would cost more, millions more, to migrate to a different cloud provider.
But then from a cloud (and “AI”) providers perspective, thats the goal. They want you dependent on them to the point where you literally can’t afford to leave.
That’s because everyone’s managers are idiots it seems like you have to be an idiot before you’re allowed to be manager if you show any kind of gumption you’re automatically disqualified from applying. Every IT tech the world over has almost certainly attempted to explain to their bosses that this is an introductory offer, and Microsoft, or Anthropic or whatever AI company they were going with, will absolutely raise prices later on. Signing into a subscription you cannot afford to get out of, is an financially irresponsible decision.
They were all ignored. Of course they were ignored, managers who can barely operate a mouse always know better than their dedicated IT support teams with a combined knowledge of over a hundred years in the industry. Fact of nature.
Hopefully a bunch of businesses will now fail, people will realize that reliance solely on an AI is a bad idea, and if you insist on using an AI, relying on a subscription AI is an extra stupid double plus bad idea, and then perhaps we can move back to some kind of normality, and then I can buy a freaking graphics card.