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by spwa4 5 hours ago
If the price difference is 2x? Sure.

If the price difference is 50x? No way.

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Tell that to Oracle
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.
The CEO won't get in trouble, but the employee who can't justify a bad result/prompt?
Accenture says "yeah totally CEOs will pay a lot for literal nothing"