Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data.
There is no way any of this ends up profitable once the money hoarders stop eating their own shit.
This is going to all collapse so horrifically once AI companies change their payment model to token usage rather than a flat monthly fee. It’s already starting with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic is the last (and most consequential) nail in the coffin.
Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.
I can’t wait!
Yeah I can’t say I feel bad for anyone involved. But something tells me the people who created this problem won’t be the ones suffering consequences.
Yeah, I’m sure they’ve got their golden parachutes ready, and will move on to the next scam.
Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.
Or worse, where the AI models underpinning a workflow breaks or degrades in some way to reduce token usage and then starts behaving in unexpected ways, in a process/workflow that assumes a particular type of behavior.
Misread this as “tokemaxing.” And if you’ve ever had to work at a warehouse… yeah.
Why not both! The more tokens you can convince the AI to spend time thinking about and spitting out, the longer you have for a toke break.
slopmaxxing pro strats.
Can I do this at work without getting caught ? Our folks are well meaning but caught up in ai hype and have no idea how any of it works just that “its the future”. They dont know anything about computers in general. I often have to explain how bad of a job it does and how useless it is for 99% of our jobs.
I’d like to waste all our tokens on it so they stop paying altman thousands a month for it.
I have API access at work because I don’t want to be tied to a UI. I’m very aware of the cost because I’m trying to see where it offers good value for money.
Of course things like the deep research and notebooklm are covered by the Google workplace fees which while including more than the personal plans are also a fair bit more expensive.
Yeah… totally normal that a new technology has to be shoehorned into the workforce. I’m sure they only need to enforce its adoption because it is so useful.
