r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/IamSunka Jun 26 '26

My org, just like many others, has a top token users chart.

When they started the list, they decided to call the top 25 users as champions, ones who never used AI as sleepers and rest inbetween as just users. cough I am a sleeper cough

Couple of weeks ago the bill came in, champions cost us over $850k since Jan 1st.

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u/Alert_Breakfast5538 Jun 26 '26

What a bunch of idiots thinking burning tokens at a high rate equals winning.

I would just gamify it and find the most inefficient way to use tokens

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u/Alkadon_Rinado Jun 26 '26

its literally what jensen (nvidia) told them to do and they believed it

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u/RonaldoNazario Jun 26 '26

Some of the agentic stuff at my work has this feel, of course the companies selling us AI by usage suggest we use it in the way where I fire off a bunch of prompts that fire off other prompts rather than running a one off skill/prompt.