"So you're a software company"
"That's right Dave"
"and you spent $500 million on AI tokens in a month?"
"Yep"
"and you're using AI to...replace employees?"
"that's right"
"that's more than your entire annual SG&A, isn't it?"
"uhuh."
Ed Zitron
Companies are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns.
An AI consultant tells us a client recently spent half a billion dollars in a month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.
Companies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.