a lot of people i know irl including me like ai,however when i use reddit or youtube or whatever i see a dozen ai bad content. why is that? surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    The advantage is you don’t need to plan and provision your own infrastructure in a DC because the vendor handles it.

    That flexibility is worth serious money.

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      Personally I don’t call that an advantage. Paying 3-5x times in monthly fees over the course of 5 years just so someone else can lifecycle the hardware. That doesn’t even include the performance hit from using shared infrastructure compared to dedicated infrastructure.

      Look at 37Signals saving $7 million over 5 years after leaving AWS.