Ruby Hartono

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

Microsoft canceled Claude Code license due to unsustainable costs. If they can't afford it, who can?

Komunikasi. Hard skill b aja tapi cara komunikasi, delegasi, koordinasi, negosiasi bagus, karir bisa ke langit-langit. Ini di luar dark art di komunikasi ya (silahkan sebut sendiri).

Menurutmu apa “soft skill” yang ternyata jauh lebih penting daripada nilai akademik?

the model alone is no longer the product

Three former senior managers at Telekom Malaysia’s US subsidiary have been charged with misappropriating over US$20 million (RM79.5 million) in company funds. They allegedly carried out multiple fraud schemes, including diverting proceeds from broadband capacity sales, impersonating suppliers, and siphoning former employee salaries, according to the US Attorney’s Office. 🧵1

Saat berpamitan dari grup kantor beberapa minggu lalu, ada 2 orang yang mengontak secara personal, sekadar bertanya kabar dan berpamitan dengan "benar", tak lupa berjanji untuk saling kontak. Keduanya desainer senior, beda tim pula. Rekan satu tim? Tak ada. Enam orang lainnya sesama desainer baru? Tak ada. Padahal saya kira kami berteman, setidaknya di kantor. Terus terang saya kecewa dan sedih. Dari situ saya sadar bahwa arti diri kita di hidup orang lain bisa saja berbeda, bisa saja tak berarti apa-apa. Namun, di mana pun, saya akan tetap jadi orang yang menyapa rekan kerja duluan. Menjadi orang yang mengajak bergabung apabila ada yang makan siang sendirian. Menjadi orang yang mem-backup apabila diperlukan. Saya akan tetap jadi orang yang kenal dan akrab dengan seluruh penjual makanan di sekeliling kompleks tempat saya bekerja. Dunia sudah terlalu kejam pada kita semua, terutama pada kelas pekerja. Saya hanya ingin menjadi sedikit nyala agar hari-hari yang melelahkan tidak begitu terasa.

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

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