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Mercor CEO Brendan Foody says his company's spending on AI agent tokens has surpassed its employee headcount costs

He predicts this will become standard across all enterprises.

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Brendan (can/do)@BrendanFoody#1990inAI

I told @HarryStebbings on @20vcFund that @mercor_ai now spends more on tokens for our internal agents than we do on headcount.

In a few years, every enterprise will too. We already see that the companies pulling ahead are running like AI labs: an eval for every workflow, agents trained like you'd train an employee, models swapped in and out on price and performance.

This is what organizing human intelligence looks like.

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i notice a lot of divergence in agent usage across companies. at minimum, it just makes sense to have a shared best practices md file/skill vs a dozen different workflows across a team

Brendan (can/do)@BrendanFoody

I told @HarryStebbings on @20vcFund that @mercor_ai now spends more on tokens for our internal agents than we do on headcount.

In a few years, every enterprise will too. We already see that the companies pulling ahead are running like AI labs: an eval for every workflow, agents trained like you'd train an employee, models swapped in and out on price and performance.

This is what organizing human intelligence looks like.

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