Matthew Berman: Hard to name any AI use case where blindly throwing tokens yields monetary value
MatthewBerman · x · 2026-11-06
AI commentator Matthew Berman questioned the ROI of current AI workloads, saying he can't think of many (or any) AI use cases where you can blindly throw tokens at a task and gain monetary value — a pointed take on the economics of agent-heavy workflows.
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