The Ultimate Metric for AI Is ROI
beffjezos · x · 2026-07-13
The author believes that the ultimate metric for measuring AI isn't benchmark tests, but product-market fit in a free market, ultimately reflected in ROI.
The quoted content puts it more bluntly: the real question to ask is "how much money can you make per million tokens." This metric doesn't need to show up in evals or demos; it needs to hold true in real business operations—whether through prompting, workflow orchestration, or steering the model in a useful direction.
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