Everyone is Wrong about Tokens

Consulting class is 100% comming. “Slop masters”, “token coaches”… I can see them on the horizon

I worked at a startup in London (fintech) that had 100 microservices, 3 broken apps and about 12 customers

7:20 My company refuses to provide more than one 1440p 27”monitor and one 1080p 22” monitor for any dev of any tenure yet I’m authorized to spend $1500 of tokens a month. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

I think you nailed it, excellent breakdown! I really like the office supplies/chairs etc. vs. token spend comparison, because that stuff is *real*, even at small startups. 2 years ago: "Gotta save those 30 bucks per year." Now: "AI for $100/$200 per seat and month? Do it!"

Someone should tell him he could just write some unit tests. No need to burn over a million dollars to verify the decimal placements in the interface.

The fun part is when a company realizes that it’s not just about the tokens. You need to properly test and validate every code change. In most cases, the CI costs are significantly higher than the token costs themselves, because best practices weren’t being followed before either. Writing the code was never the expensive part.

I have been ranting at my housemates and colleagues about exactly this. I would bet money that my entire team will have to do a mandatory "how to use your agent efficiently" training before the end of the year. Just the recent price hikes were enough for management to cool it on the "use AI everywhere all the time" demands. I am super excited for the day these guys figure out what those tokens really cost.

Omg Prime is literally an ai salesman right now.

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💯 the only reason companies are willing to spend this much money on tokens is because they have been sold on the idea that tokens can replace their work force. Once they realise this is not the case the token rationing will begin. When your company starts rationing tokens it’s over, you made it, your job is safe