The cost of the smart home is going up

[rcjordan]

The industry sees AI as its long-awaited business model, but all we're getting are better notifications and higher bills

https://www.theverge.com/tech/935298/smart-home-cost-increase-ai-subscription-fatigue

[ergophobe]

> higher bills

I'm seeing more and more of these kinds of reports/comments.

The blush seems to be wearing off the AI boom. We may already be post-bubble frankly. Currently, people are fairly sour on AI, it is not delivering big productivity and for all the handwringing that some of us here (translation: me) had about overbuilding, the AI companies are currently constrained by capacity not by demand.

I think for a long time when people thought of AI replacing workers, they imagined that an $80k/year worker would disappear and there would $80K and extra margin.

Now, I'm starting to see a lot of people talk about the cost of AI and asking, if an $80K/year worker is being replaced by $70k in AI costs by an LLM that can't actually pick up a fire extinguisher if there's a fire, is that worth it?