Meta Curbs Employee AI Token Usage to Control Surging Internal Costs

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@kimmonismus They can run GLM 5.2 on their massive stockpile of GPUs.

@kimmonismus were they coding anything important though

@kimmonismus The token wealth transfer faucet is finally being closed at Meta, but probably still open for most Enterprises that didn't start with tokenmax.

@kimmonismus Tokenmaxing was the dumbest thing ever like ok so just get agents doing random stuff 24x7 so I don’t lose my job lol

@kimmonismus Ha ah, Meta http://seem.to struggling a lot when it come to AI, not as easy as buying company with billions

@Kierbnak Well, they're still a significant company. They don't just train LLMs. Of course, there are good use cases for a lot of coding.

@kimmonismus Meta ads and business center Is so bad that all this proves that people use AI to replace their work and not augment it.

All this AI spend and core product remains bad

@kimmonismus No wonder they have layoffs!

@kimmonismus hit this exact wall with pennywise went weeks prompting freely then one anthropic invoice flipped me into manual token counting overnight. did meta have any productivity data before the cutback or just the invoice?

@kimmonismus cost controls were inevitable once the spending got noticed

@kimmonismus meta qui découvre que ses employés brûlent des milliards en claude. quelque part anthropic a sorti le champagne

@kimmonismus Imagine the token costs if people start using Fable when it comes back.

@kimmonismus tokenmaxxing is dumb

@kimmonismus Turns out tokenmaxxing gets expensive when six thousand employees participate

@kimmonismus Meta owns Llama and still can’t get employees off Claude.

If they can’t win that battle internally, switching costs at the model layer are real.

@__tinygrad__ @kimmonismus not to mention their ASICs

@kimmonismus There was a time….

@kimmonismus No more tokenmaxxing in general. The era of burning tokens to show people are using AI is over. Money always fixes these nonsenses.

@kimmonismus They should start hiring a new position for every CEO called the the Bitch of Reality.

Their sole job is to bitch slap the CEO any time they say or do something stupid.

Poor Mark would be knocked in the first hour of every day.