Google ends NotebookLM's free deck-generation spree — and token waste comes due
nptacek · x · 2026-09-07
The author notes the days of generating a nearly endless stream of decks in NotebookLM are over — the same pattern as Grok Imagine: once services get bundled and consolidated, the usage bill always comes due.
He raises a bigger question: with the line between experiment and product increasingly blurry, how bad is overall token waste inside large organizations where employees burn free experimental capacity as productivity tools?
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