Big Tech is discovering that unlimited AI prompts can look less like savings and more like a runaway cloud bill.
Key takeaways
- If AI is supposed to cut labor costs, why are Microsoft and Uber now treating the prompt box like it needs a finance department?
- That is the real signal beneath the latest enterprise AI reversal. Companies that recently encouraged employees to “use AI as much as possible” are now pulling back, c...
- The phrase “tokenmaxxing” captures the excess: treating high token burn as proof of seriousness about AI adoption. That logic made sense during the internal evange...
- Why did “tokenmaxxing” flip from badge of urgency to budget problem?
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