Engineer mocks corporate IT: tokens are a cost center, but a 10TB nightly no-query sync job is critical infra
cto_junior · x · 2026-10-25
X user ctojunior jokes about corporate IT double standards: companies now treat LLM tokens as a cost center to rein in, while a nightly spark job copying 10TB from S3 into a Snowflake table nobody queries is treated as critical infrastructure. The jab highlights the contrast between strict AI spend reviews and tolerated waste in legacy data pipelines.
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