When Uber CTO announced that his team had
blew past their annual token budget in just over a quarter, it was first seen as a positive outcome of advanced AI usage, but the story started to darken when Anthropic, Google and Open AI started to limit token usage and raise prices on what you were able to use. It’s all very well re-wiring your workflows to be AI-native / AI-only, but what if that means your putting your business at risk of unplanned increases of token spend? CloudZero with a
decent post on how employers can calculate token budget. Doing this show with George Larocque, Chris Havrilla and others on Brainfood Live because we in TA / HR need to get into this conversation -
What if AI Costs More than Humans?