The problem is that we were on the Team plan which is a flat rate plan.

You raise a valid point but it has no substance. Management confronted us and said "you are doing it wrong!" And I stopped them "no, we aren't. even if we are, we can try to economize on tokens. We can get a 100% improvement, 200%? 500%?

It's still order of magnitude LESS than what we were doing and it's costing us, in dollars, twice what we were paying before.

You see, the problem with the Enterprise plan is that, unlike Team or Pro, it does not include any (subsidized) usage. Every token counts towards the budget. And corporate either did not read the fine print, or they had more than 150 developers (the maximum allowed by Team plan) and they were forced to switch.

They were expecting it would last for the entire month, like the Team plan was.

But it turns out the Pro and Team plans are subsidized and include far more tokens, that reset every week, than the "actual price" that they charge large companies.

It would be a valid point if one or two devs got it wrong. But it happend for all of us (and we work in different projects).

I'm Argentinian. And I'm speaking from experience.

and they are not yet charging for the "tokens" what they need to charge to become profitable

We recently got access to Claude Enterprise and found how expensive it is. We were given $45 a month of budget. Everyone in the team blew through that in 2 days. And considering this is still being "subsidized" I honestly don't see what's the future for "AI Coding".

As to HR, a critical function of HR is resolving conflicts.

No it's not? HR's only role is to protect the company from their employees.

HR is not your friend. Raise any concerns with HR and you will be flagged as problematic. They are not there to resolve conflicts. They're there to AVOID conflicts. And the best way to avoid conflict is not having "conflictive" people in the first place.

HR does not work in your interest. HR works in the interest of the company.

HR is there to document your mistakes so the company can fire you cleanly. That's HR's main function.

"Rush"? They've had going on 3 years.

Looks to me that they blindly trusted Broadcom, despite all evidence to the contrary.

You didn't answer what they were asking.

They are behind CGNAT and Cloudflare provides a cloud VPN service that you can use to dial out, and then open ports in the cloudflare console, into your computer.

You are talking about two different things cloudflare does.

I didn't see it mentioned anywhere; what is t-mobile migrating to?

I guarantee there's someone, or a few someones, at t-mobile who saw this coming. They're mid level support or engineers. I'm sure they were screaming to all that they could find about what was coming, but upper management and the powers that be ignored them. None could confront the mass migration that was necessary if this group of someones were right, so they must be wrong.

Until they weren't.

And so this group will be rewarded with all the shit-work needed to get the migration done, while the very same people that ignored the timebomb ticking in their closet will be rewarded for their "vision" and "decisiveness".

God I don't miss corporate.

I had one breakthrough DMT experience where I saw 'the machine elves' (I just saw what I describe as fast-moving fractals that I 'felt' were beckoning to me); but, we have matching experiences w/the other primary psychedelics: I only had relatively minor on-top visual distortions with even the largest doses of LSD (1500+ mcg) or mushrooms.

That said, everyone is different. I know that some of my friends absolutely lost their fucking minds on a few tabs of LSD and, purportedly, experienced wild hallucinations that I have to trust were real to them but haven't ever experienced myself.

well, at my current job they use NoSQL, in this case it's DynamoDB and it's been frustrating at times. So I asked the question: why are we dealing with these problems day in, day out, if the problems we're trying to solve have been solved half a century ago with SQL?

The answer is cost. The way we access data may be convenient to do with SQL, but it's also expensive. We have big (not webscale but large) volumes of data coming in every day. Having this on SQL would cost us tens of thousands a month. Keeping it in DynamoDB costs us a few hundred. And it's stupidly fast - if we wanted to get that kind of performance from SQL we'd have to pay for a supercharged overprovisioned server.

And honestly it's been fun. It's turned "boring business software development" back into more of an engineering problem.

I see the problem as a more "get off my lawn" types here. They have fully adopted "vibe coding" as "anything made with AI assistance" as much as older people call anyone younger than them "millennials".

There's a big difference between an experienced programmer providing the AI with clear, concise prompts and guidance; than having someone with zero knowledge trying to build an entire app from scratch.

One is "augmented capabilities", the other is vibe coding. But the haters here just refuse ANY sort of AI involvement.

Are consumers really clamoring for this?

I've worked with both the state of CA and AT&T.

You're goddamn right I'm full of hate.