Most companies these days are incredibly disciplined on spending. That’s one reason why corporations have record profits in the last few years. The level of efficiency is so high.

That’s what makes the AI Wild West so fascinating to me. Companies just threw money at it out of fear of falling behind.

Now, I think that fear has subsided at many companies.

I always thought it was incredibly questionable that we were able to slurp down AI tooling with no questions asked. Meanwhile, if we want a piece of software for some other non-AI purpose, the prospect of spending $50/month per employee is met with deep scrutiny or outright denial by default.

All the tokenmaxxing stuff was just management signaling that every single employee better be using AI or else. Now that everyones got the message its back to business of course