First they bragged about using so many tokens; now they cap it once they hit the bottom line, lol.
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
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Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#12I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?
You aren't allowed to use the same super cheap subscriptions if your company is big enough.
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#13I find it kind of funny that all these companies were token-maxing while the AI companies are giving services at huge discounts costing the AI companies tons of money just so the people can get on leader boards at work. How much has Anthropic and OpenAI spent on just people wanting to get on the leader board at work (or worse, how many trees have been burned down just to get on the leader board at work.)
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#14I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?
I believe that Enterprise plans have no bundled usage.
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797531-what-is-the-e...
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#15Isn't inference cheap? Why are AI labs charging so much for it?
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#16there coo already called out in public .. its hard to measure!!!https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai...
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#17I find it kind of funny that all these companies were token-maxing while the AI companies are giving services at huge discounts costing the AI companies tons of money just so the people can get on leader boards at work. How much has Anthropic and OpenAI spent on just people wanting to get on the leader board at work (or worse, how many trees have been burned down just to get on the leader board at work.)
yup!!!everone is hurrying without checking the value..
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#18It makes me wonder about the state of their codebase if devs needs to consume more than $1500 per month. It's interesting that AI is finally forcing businesses to think about coding maintenance costs though. When I started working on https://saasufy.com/ as a dev tool many years ago, I was frustrated that no big company cared about software maintenance costs and I really couldn't imagine a world where maintenance cos…
Why do you think the cap has anything to do with the quality of their codebase? Employees could've been tokenmaxxing for various reasons: learning, experimenting, trying to impress the management, ...
Naturally, this leads to AI spending skyrocketing while the business value may not be totally clear. Which leads to caps being introduced to keep the budget under control and discourage/limit tokenmaxxing.
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#19I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?
That no longer exists.. Anthropic business is now seat + usage billed.
Re: Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
#20I read somewhere this morning there is now more spending on datacenter infrastructure for "AI" in the US than all other infrastructure combined, roads, bridges, ship ports, etc.
Sounds plausible but I doubt it outmatches ICE warehouse concentration camp spending
Which is now the future of this country unless we force a course correction, by 2029 you'll drive down highways and it will just be one datacenter and ICE prison warehouse after another
I do not understand why you need as many GPUs powered up than people in the country or even a 1:10 ratio, it's all going to sit idle until they find something practical to do with "AI" other than entertainment purposes because it's not profitable, how are they going to monetize it, they cannot