alt Hacker News> If it was actually productive, then the revenue would increase and affordability wouldn't be a question.
Revenue has increased. Have you seen Meta's latest earnings? +33% revenue - in this economy.
Affordability is not a question. There is a reason companies like Meta have no issue with their engineers spending $1k/day on tokens. It's just not that much compared to how much they make per employee.
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After losing 20 million users? https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-u...
I really don't understand their economics.
This article is about Uber, not Meta
That means absolutely nothing in the context of this conversation. It says right in their release ad impressions are up almost 20% and cost per add is up 12%. Those two metrics alone account for most of the increase in their revenue. Absolutely no conclusion can be drawn regarding the impact of AI on those numbers one way or the other.
It's not like they used AI to crank out some new revenue generating piece of software, or massively reduce operating costs. In fact their operating costs rose by 35%.
How can that be attributed to any code an LLM wrote?
>$8 billion of net income was the result of a tax benefit the company realized in the first quarter of the year.
So exactly how much of their revenue is because of any code LLMs wrote vs. just structural tail winds?