… But critics argue that “tokenmaxxing”—as this concept is known—is the wrong metric because it simply racks up AI expenses. “The people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job,” Evans claimed in his post. …
… Andrew Pignanelli, the founder of the dubiously-named General Intelligence Company, gave a presentation last month in which he explained that many of the “jobs” at his company are just a series of AI agents, and that he now usually spends more money on AI compute than he does on human salaries. “We… …
… Meanwhile, top dev teams are trying to outcompete one another by tokenmaxxing — a proxy for understanding who at the company is experimenting with AI more often, based on the number of AI tokens they use. …
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… Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code , and tested removing access to Claude Code entirely in its $20 per month plan keeping access in its $100 per month plan As noted in The Verge , Anthropic restricted Claude access to users of OpenClaw because the heavy usage was unsustainable OpenAI’s C… …
… If this AI bubble bursts, we will see some much bigger writeoffs, but perhaps not so many layoffs. The layoffs come if AI succeeds, not it if it just grows instead of maintaining an exponential. …
… Just a couple of weeks ago, Uber’s CTO said the company had already burned through its entire token budget for the year by the start of April, and Dara told me he was rethinking how fast the company would hire people as it spent more money on tokens. …
… So it’s been great to have so many great partners in the space, from Google to Anthropic and OpenAI. My sense of the situation is that every token costs the big company’s money, that they’re all subsidizing token use. …
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