Ex-Microsoft Windows AI Engineer Spends $3,000/Month on Tokens, Shares His Full AI Workflow
bibryam · x · 2026-11-05
Ben Stolovitz, formerly an engineer on Microsoft's Windows AI team and now a research engineer at Salesforce AI Research, publishes his annual "How I use AI" review (Oct 2026). Highlights:
- Personal AI policy: He drafted a personal AI-use policy document as a daily framework, citing the lack of social norms (teammates using Claude for Slack messages, grandparents generating odd AI art of grandchildren).
- Spend: Roughly $3,000/month in tokens.
- Use cases continue across five buckets: coding, research & search, summarization/transcription (plus new voice), writing, and art/music (plus new video).
- His role shift to supporting scientists and rapid prototyping has changed how he uses these tools.
He frames it as personal opinion and speculation, open to draft 1 being "utterly wrong."
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