AI too costly to handle – Microsoft calls humans cheaper , Uber sees no productivity gains
Amidst doomsday predictions of a job apocalypse due to a surge in automation, two Silicon Valley companies have shown signs of distress, calling AI more expensive. Companies like Microsoft and Uber have noticed that deploying human workers can be economical.
Microsoft has reportedly begun cancelling most of its direct Claude Code licenses. According to The Verge it is instead moving engineers toward using GitHub and Copilot CLI. This comes just six months after the firm first opened up access to Claude Code, encouraging thousands of its developers, project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment with coding.
