COMPANIES PUT AI ON A DIET. IT COSTS TOO MUCH
Companies put AI on a diet because it costs too much. Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, they gave AI to every employee. Now they are rationing it. It costs too much and the numbers do not add up.
Internal documents, emails and chats have leaked. Atlassian went from 5 to over 15 million dollars a month in 9 months. They installed a dashboard where every employee sees how much each AI conversation costs the company. In internal chats, people complained. They had reorganized their work around these tools and now they burn through their tokens in 2 or 3 days.
Citi shut off the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models for a week, with an internal email explaining which model to use for each task just to save tokens. The cheap one for quick questions, the mid one for code. Publicly, they deny everything. But the emails say otherwise.
Adobe let its unlimited Claude access expire at the end of June. Employees were basically told to finish everything they could before that date.
Amazon even added an internal leaderboard rewarding whoever used AI the most. They shut it down. Soon after, usage limits appeared.
Because vendors moved from flat subscription to pay-per-use, and budgets blew up. For years we thought AI always pays for itself, but maybe it’s not like that anymore. They sell it as an investment. They ration it like printer paper. If the budget doesn’t hold even with their own employees, they’re building on something that doesn’t hold. What do you think?
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