[spqw]

This + making sure common requests are saved as reusable skills and scripts would probably save a large part of my token usage

As prices increase we will see more of these tools to optimise and make the best use of token budget

[adchurch]

100%, from what we've seen, for a lot of big companies that 1. don't have subsidized usage and 2. are pushing AI adoption hard, figuring out token costs is P0 or P1 for their eng leadership

[SoftTalker]

So you're saying that since adopting AI/LLM tech many companies have their top engineering priority being optimizing the costs of that rather than ... addressing actual business needs?

[adchurch]

I guess delivering business value is always #1, I just meant it's the biggest problem they're trying to solve. Here's a recent example that was public: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-c...