Mastodawn

*"#AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee '#TokenMaxxing' backfires, sparking corporate pullback at #Microsoft, #Meta, and #Amazon — 👉agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI👈..."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-cost-crisis-hits-tech-giants-as-employee-tokenmaxxing-backfires-agentic-ai-eats-up-to-1000x-more-tokens-than-standard-ai-sparks-corporate-pullback-at-microsoft-meta-and-amazon

..OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger claimed that...it’s now apparent that using AI is more expensive than hiring people, especially since it offers only limited productivity gains at the moment..

AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires, sparking corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI

AI is getting too expensive.

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