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by adchurch 2 hours ago
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
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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?
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...