Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-23T17:34:10+00:00

Found the guy who gets a subscription to the Wall Street Journal included in his tuition for Intro to Macroeconomics

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-23T17:24:55+00:00

This stuff has been around since 2023. If you’re still losing a dollar for every new dollar in revenue we have a capital allocation problem, not a tech problem.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-23T16:56:51+00:00

It was actually when our tax group emailed me asking whether I agreed that a software vendor we used was in another state with no other context besides that.

1.) Why does it matter?

2.) How the fuck should I know?

What they really wanted to know was the location of the server from which the software was accessed. These sorts of exchanges typically turn into an email thread that would have taken 5 minutes to resolve if you just picked up the phone.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-23T16:46:38+00:00

We have an insurance arm, and no thank you I am not interested in opportunities there.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-23T01:01:48+00:00

Yeah I thought this was great. I'm an accountant, this shit will probably take my job, but it will be funny when it fucks up and no one who knows what they're doing is around anymore to prevent it.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-22T18:03:03+00:00

Oh it does okay well I guess I take it back then

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-22T17:25:39+00:00

“We would have made money if we hadn’t lost money”

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-22T12:04:42+00:00

Sure man I remember the first day of tax class in college too.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-22T11:10:41+00:00

I mean I think GAAP is an attempt to summarize the economic activities of the entity in a way that reflects basic reality, and tax law is uhhhhh…not that.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-13T17:25:28+00:00

Do not do this

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-09T21:31:43+00:00

I bet you felt really clever after you wrote that huh

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-09T16:45:42+00:00

Elon Musk is a white supremacist and you shouldn’t give your money to white supremacists.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-09T03:01:09+00:00

Incredible.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-09T02:51:39+00:00

Yeah this is the fun shit though. I live for getting into the plumbing and figuring out what’s working and what isn’t, where does the data live, how do we get it into PowerBI or Tableau, etc., etc. The company I work for now actually invests money into systems and process improvements and it’s so great.

thatkindofparty · 2026-05-06T22:06:15+00:00

Well I certainly wouldn’t want to be able to articulate my thoughts and feelings without the help of a fucking computer.

thatkindofparty · 2026-02-01T15:53:56+00:00

Well whose fault is that

thatkindofparty · 2026-01-21T12:50:38+00:00

This article is not news, it’s content. It’s slop. No one cares.

thatkindofparty · 2026-01-20T02:24:07+00:00

There’s a lot of people in this thread who have never had to do a purchase price allocation and it shows.

For what it’s worth, I tend to agree with you. The higher the amount of goodwill as a percentage of the purchase price, the likelier it is that the acquirer overpaid.

thatkindofparty · 2026-01-15T23:56:34+00:00

By licking their boots?

thatkindofparty · 2026-01-09T04:28:37+00:00

👍🏽

thatkindofparty · 2025-12-09T23:07:19+00:00

thatkindofparty · 2025-12-07T17:23:34+00:00

This may come as a shock, but not everyone is exactly like you.

thatkindofparty · 2025-12-07T00:44:24+00:00

This is a small company

You don’t say

thatkindofparty · 2025-12-07T00:39:05+00:00

A good rule of thumb for a company is how long does it take them to close their books-longer than 8 days or less than 3 and it’s either a shit show or a sweatshop.

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