A Manager’s Guide to Reducing AI Costs Without Reducing Headcount

https://www.productcurious.com/p/uber-ai-budget-mistake
TALENT OPERATIONS
Issue #498
26 Apr 2026
As we all become AI-enabled, we’re all going to end up using way more tokens than projected, mainly because of the compounding effect of that usage. This is a fascinating post on the rule-of-thumb calculations on token cost managers should be using when figuring out budget. I wonder whether any TA / HR leaders have hit this kind of wall yet - have you set up an AI native process and unexpectedly escalated token cost? Let me know in comments below, might be worth another Brainfood Live.