If it's an employee, which I doubt but ok, it's an employee you constantly have to probe, talk to, give instructions to, so, not a really good employee.
Neither of us have any idea whether his manufacturing startup is successful. It looks to be a 5 person team. A google search suggests they had a funding round early this year.
It might, in fact, be that you are more successful with your approach. I have no idea. Congrats if so.
I mean, he must be pretty successful to be able to burn 10k in tokens. If he is successful because or despite of the AI, I don't know and I don't really care ? That wasn't the question.
It's not the case that someone successful is doing everything right and someone unsuccessful is doing everything wrong, I'd grant.
But I think it's odd for you to now say it doesn't matter whether or not his AI token use is leading to success or not. I personally think it's actually really important to learn whether/when this approach is smart.
Depends how you use the tokens. It's not 10k, but I have an agent do an investigation automatically when I get paged, so by the time I get to the computer I have a nice summary. But that's costing me like $5/mo at most.
But you could use tons of autonomous agents for all kinds of things. Probably shouldn't, but you can.
It might, in fact, be that you are more successful with your approach. I have no idea. Congrats if so.