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Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive (www.404media.co)
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[–] shaztopher@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you click the most expensive model and then click max/fast mode, the same task can easily cost 10 or 20x of the cheaper models

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I watched two colleagues this week and both had Opus 4.8 1M max thinking. No matter which task. It’s also slow as fuck. I work almost all day with GPT-5.4 low thinking and get good results… but faster and cheaper.

I guess good model selection and promoting will be what sets devs apart in the near future. Once that bubble bursts a bit more and prices increase further that will be an interesting reckoning. Also for companies who basically taunted their employees into tokenmaxxing.