a16z says CEO Rayan Krishnan found Cognition's Devin "very token-efficient" and chose to adopt more of it. He also said subscriptions can offer better pricing than token-based plans.
a16z describes a Vals AI experiment in which CEO Rayan Krishnan secured unlimited access to some coding tools for a month. Krishnan said many engineers used one to two billion tokens a day. He estimated the month's usage at roughly $1.5 million worth of tokens—10 times employee salaries for that month—and said that approach could not continue. He credited the experiment with informing the company's tool choices, citing greater adoption of Cognition's Devin for its reported token efficiency and opportunities for better pricing through subscriptions.
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a16z says CEO Rayan Krishnan found Cognition's Devin "very token-efficient" and chose to adopt more of it. He also said subscriptions can offer better pricing than token-based plans.
a16z describes a Vals AI experiment in which CEO Rayan Krishnan secured unlimited access to some coding tools for a month. Krishnan said many engineers used one to two billion tokens a day. He estimated the month's usage at roughly $1.5 million worth of tokens—10 times employee salaries for that month—and said that approach could not continue. He credited the experiment with informing the company's tool choices, citing greater adoption of Cognition's Devin for its reported token efficiency and opportunities for better pricing through subscriptions.
a16z@a16zVals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on the unlimited tokens experiment that revealed an anxious obligation for engineers to use models all the time, everywhere: "I wanted to do a tokenmaxxing experiment. I was able to get unlimited access for our team for a month for some of the coding…
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a16z@a16zVals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on the unlimited tokens experiment that revealed an anxious obligation for engineers to use models all the time, everywhere: "I wanted to do a tokenmaxxing experiment. I was able to get unlimited access for our team for a month for some of the coding…
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