A buddy of mine works at a place where they did the "please! use as many llm tokes as you can!" to "oh shit this is way more expensive than the people and services we thought it was going to replace" speedrun in just a couple of months.
Their suggestion for reducing token use? "Ask Claude how you can use fewer tokens."
Corporate America is out of ideas, folks
Rob Ricci
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2026-10-03 17:18:37 UTC
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