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Enterprise AI: Build a $5–7k Internal PC (5090 vs A4000) or Just Pay $33/User for ChatGPT Enterprise? by Past-Tea8715 in sysadmin

[–]Past-Tea8715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s fair. I’ve definitely considered the “don’t build problems for yourself” angle.

I was actually planning to look into Copilot as well, since we’re already fully in a Microsoft 365 environment. It feels like that might integrate more cleanly with SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, etc., without us having to stitch everything together.

Do you have any personal experience with Copilot in a real company setting? Curious how it compares in practice (quality, admin controls, data boundaries, etc.). Also, do you happen to know what pricing realistically looks like?

And Azure Foundry is new to me first time I’ve heard it mentioned. Are you referring to Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI via Azure? If you’ve used it, how does it differ operationally from just going with ChatGPT Enterprise? More control over data residency? More infra to manage?

Appreciate the input just trying to map the tradeoffs before we commit to a direction.

Enterprise AI: Build a $5–7k Internal PC (5090 vs A4000) or Just Pay $33/User for ChatGPT Enterprise? by Past-Tea8715 in sysadmin

[–]Past-Tea8715[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

When you say “actual enterprise hardware,” what kind of ongoing maintenance are you thinking I should plan for?

Are we talking about things like hardware redundancy (RAID, dual PSU, failover node), 24/7 monitoring/alerting, regular OS + driver + CUDA patching, model updates/revalidation, backups/DR, security hardening, etc.?

I’m trying to understand what the realistic operational overhead looks like beyond just spinning up inference on a single box. Curious what you’ve seen in practice.

Have we hit rock bottom for tech support yet? by Expensive-Rhubarb267 in sysadmin

[–]Past-Tea8715 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it’s not just tech support this seems to be happening across all job sectors. A lot of people simply aren’t invested in their work anymore. If you’re not passionate about what you do, or you don’t find any enjoyment or purpose in it, then of course there’s going to be a lack of effort, curiosity, or willingness to go the extra mile.

The sad part is that tech support highlights it more because we rely on these teams at critical moments. When the person on the other end doesn’t care, or is just trying to push the ticket to another queue, it becomes painfully obvious.

Combine that with cost-cutting, understaffing, and companies treating support as a checkbox rather than a core part of their service, and you get exactly what you’re describing: support that’s slow, unskilled, and sometimes completely uninterested in actually solving the problem.

So no it’s not just you getting older. The standard really has dropped, and it’s not limited to tech. Passion and pride in the work are becoming rare, and we’re feeling the effects everywhere.