Microsoft have introduced limits for its engineers AI tools usage
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/
It's not in the article but they've also rolled back their Claude Code rollout too.
All of this is noise to companies that make canned tuna and such btw - you know, companies that actually do stuff and drive the global economy.
They can't afford any of this shit. They can barely afford to upgrade their Windows 10 PCs, which are held together by string.
Microsoft's SLT often thinks their customers are all the DoD and banks. They aren't. They're orgs struggling with real world problems, who can't afford Visio licenses.
@GossiTheDog Reminds me of a call I had today with a real, significant company somewhere in Africa, they are knee-deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, except the latency and bandwidth constraints were making any page load on office365 unbearable, the screenshare was painful to watch.
Maybe they should fix that first instead of spending all their capex on GPUs.
@mathieui @GossiTheDog I'm a firm believer that developers should be forced to use shitty machines on shitty internet connections so they can actually feel the pain they inflict on others.
I've been preaching this for years. Developers should be forced to work and test their software on Celeron, 256MiB RAM, 256MiB swap, 5400 RPM spinning rust 120GB HDDs.
I'm okay with compilation to happen on a beefy iron.
But the actual user experience should be the absolute minimum.
@datenwolf @mathieui @GossiTheDog I've been slowly cutting down my compute for similar reasons. It makes IDEs and fancy code completion tools almost impossible
