The company i work for is spending the equivalent of the yearly salary of a dozen engineers, worth of tokens per month. It recently surpassed our monthly cloud spend bill.
We have people who are running the same tasl 10 times in parallel and having one LLm write a prompt for another LLm to execute then sitting on their phone for an hour while they let the AI's battle it out. For tasks that should take 3 minutes. Then having another coding agent make a PR, update JIRA tickets, etc.
Frankly it blows my mind that so many developers have so little actual understanding of cost associated with AI.
> Frankly it blows my mind that so many developers have so little actual understanding of cost associated with AI.
I’ve seen all the same bullshit as you. We have a claude slash command to add one of 4 labels to a PR. We have people using AI to move their JIRA tickets across the swim lanes. People kick off codex tasks to rename a variable.
But I’ve literally heard execs at my place of work cheering this behavior on say the actual concern is why isn’t everyone doing this and if you aren’t spending enough, then maybe you aren’t being a forward thinker.
We have people who are running the same tasl 10 times in parallel and having one LLm write a prompt for another LLm to execute then sitting on their phone for an hour while they let the AI's battle it out. For tasks that should take 3 minutes. Then having another coding agent make a PR, update JIRA tickets, etc.
Frankly it blows my mind that so many developers have so little actual understanding of cost associated with AI.