Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?
Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend. Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans. I have tried some local models such as Kimi, however most are barely functional. I am very concerned as the expectation of amount of work done is to remain consistent. Ignoring the fact teams have made entire workflows around Claude I am very worried and frustrated. How can I help my team ease this transition? Are their local models that run well on local machines that only have 16gb ram? 8 comments on Hacker News.
Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend. Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans. I have tried some local models such as Kimi, however most are barely functional. I am very concerned as the expectation of amount of work done is to remain consistent. Ignoring the fact teams have made entire workflows around Claude I am very worried and frustrated. How can I help my team ease this transition? Are their local models that run well on local machines that only have 16gb ram?
Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend. Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans. I have tried some local models such as Kimi, however most are barely functional. I am very concerned as the expectation of amount of work done is to remain consistent. Ignoring the fact teams have made entire workflows around Claude I am very worried and frustrated. How can I help my team ease this transition? Are their local models that run well on local machines that only have 16gb ram? 8 comments on Hacker News.
Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend. Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans. I have tried some local models such as Kimi, however most are barely functional. I am very concerned as the expectation of amount of work done is to remain consistent. Ignoring the fact teams have made entire workflows around Claude I am very worried and frustrated. How can I help my team ease this transition? Are their local models that run well on local machines that only have 16gb ram?
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