[ed_elliott_asc]

Won’t all they need to do is say “best in class, latest models, fastest” and wine and dine a few execs and those enterprise deals will be signed?

In this case the people tasked with using the product won’t actually mind.

[actionfromafar]

Yes, exactly that. Be Azure and Office 365 and Sharepoint and AWS where everyone else is Debian Stable on a USB thumbdrive.

[fragmede]

Office 365? Ew, Google docs, please.

[NitpickLawyer]

No one is getting fired for using SotA.

[spwa4]

If the price difference is 2x? Sure.

If the price difference is 50x? No way.

[RobotToaster]

Tell that to Oracle

[brainwad]

So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly optimal.

[ThunderSizzle]

The CEO won't get in trouble, but the employee who can't justify a bad result/prompt?

[watwut]

Accenture says "yeah totally CEOs will pay a lot for literal nothing"