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Why is AI expensive all of a sudden?

Alberta Tech

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0:00 token time
1:30 automation time
2:36 the rise of tokenmaxxing
4:56 the fall of tokenmaxxing
6:16 the REAL fall of tokenmaxxing
8:08 the real reason WHY

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20 Comments

@albertatech Creator 3 months ago Pinned

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@lorebiter 3 months ago

Companies remembered that increasing their expenses for no reason is dumb, actually.

@nks1111 3 months ago

Here I am getting rejected for a $1000 monitor, but allowed to spend $10000/month on AI

@ReedoTV 3 months ago

Remember when you had to argue back and forth with your employer about a £50 one-off payment for a software licence?

@Raika63 3 months ago

I don't need a robot to make github issues, I've been causing github issues to be generated for years.

@Tobascodagama 3 months ago

Companies would literally spend $60M/year on tokens instead of hiring more engineers.

@gregvanpaassen 3 months ago

Reward people for burning hundred dollar bills, someone will bring flamethrowers. Management fail. So much fail.

@jakobm.4183 3 months ago

I really thought that tokenmaxxing means making the most out of your tokens. Innocent me, it is so easy to underestimate corporate stupidity.

@KeithOlson 3 months ago

Reality check: It has ALWAYS been horrendously expensive, but smart dealers know you only have to give away the product until users get hooked, and then you own them.

@niccolomanahan7775 3 months ago

Caveman talk is basically adventure game parser commands back in my day 😆

@PrebleStreetRecords 3 months ago

I used the “Emperor’s New Clothes” analogy in a massive Microsoft demo Q&A and the response was…not excellent.

@10e999 3 months ago

"Tokenmaxing is a trends in tech"

The fact that we continue calling ads company "tech companies" bafles me.

@xavier_lbrr 3 months ago

And we shouldn't forget that it also has a gigantic ecological cost

@hawkzro2455 3 months ago

This is no different than the great push to "public cloud" before the pandemic years. Companies did the same thing, "why aren't we hosting EVERYTHING in AWS!" only to find out a year or two later when the bill hit "You all gotta stop putting EVERYTHING in AWS, it's to dang expensive!" and history repeats itself... roflol

@101289teutonicguy 3 months ago

The crazy thing is that these companies are still not charging what these tokens cost.

@SoidHoid 3 months ago

Breaking news: things that cost money cost money.

@kanhagarg3047 3 months ago (edited)

More I grow up , i realise most people never do, especially company leadership

@frogimmortal 3 months ago

As someone not in the industry, I am just so utterly baffled by all this. Laying off workers for a technology even I could have pointed out was deeply lacking, knowing tokens have a cost and maxing them, being surprised by it all, by people who’s specialty largely concerns budgeting, ROI, and the like. I just can’t…