The craziest to me was someone saying “we are using AI in daily processes, now we need to automate”.

But of course to some asshole non-technical people it meant asking for their vibe coded bullshit to be merged into production without review and fighting about it.

That's kinda hilarious. Pretty soon they might just ask people to write code themselves.

Same here. It's insane that big, conservative tech companies would sign contracts saying "allow our engineers to use however much they want, we'll pay the bill later, no matter what it costs". In any other domain my company would insist on prior permission, and soft usage caps, and hard usage caps, and real-time tracking of actual dollar amounts (not just opaque tokens/credits, not just an after-the-fact view on a dashboard).

The AI companies' salespeople must be the greatest geniuses in the history of the world.

We are using this brand new hammer to build everything!

Please stop using this brand new hammer for glassmaking.

> 2 months ago management was showing us scoreboards, praising leaders who used most tokens. Last few weeks, we're getting weekly emails, telling us that whenever we can - we should use cheaper models, and that we should watch the page which shows our tokens usage.

GPT 5.5's double token cost was the threshold for me. These things are getting expensive quickly - the subsidized pricing can't go on forever.

The leader boards based on token usage happened in our org for a month. Then we managed to convince the board that what matters is the reliable software shipped. Now we are back to DORA metrics.

Are corporate employees not allowed to use personal subscriptions?

Apologies for sounding like a billboard, but this is exactly why we built https://flowstate.inc/

Dog! Use it and tell us how it is! Stop with this token maxing moaning. You have access to a new powerful tool.

I'm using local models in Ollama for most things and only use the paid corporate account when my local model gets stuck.

I’ve switched to a more precise use of agents where I give less autonomy but I have much higher trust the output will be what I expect.

And I do more hand coding to guide the agent to useful patterns I want.

I feel like that’s how I used less capable agents a year ago. But I’m finding even with high quality agents, the slop creeps in.

I want more control. I want to save money. Hence going back to a more 80/20 agent to human LoC split.

> 2 months ago management was showing us scoreboards, praising leaders who used most tokens.

Everyone is insane.

interesting, our enterprise account here in Australia doesn't have access to it yet.

I wonder if clues like this will be what are written in history books as the beginning of the bubble bursting.

wow almost as if they needed to incentivise people to use and then tame it down to keep it in sustainable levels. shocking!