AI Costs Double While Output Sees Marginal Gains
Hesamation · x · 2026-07-11
This post quotes a discussion regarding corporate AI bills: token costs are doubling every 45 days, but productivity only increases by about 5%. Somewhat sarcastically, the author adds that in an environment where salaries are stagnant, layoffs are feared, and workers are pressured to use AI to do 10x the work, employees might retaliate by running massive agentic loops to "burn tokens." However, they don't explicitly claim any specific company is actually doing this.
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