Microsoft pulls back on its Anthropic/Claude spend.. + the raw stupidity of tokenmaxxing
Microsoft pulls back on its Anthropic/Claude spend.. + the raw stupidity of tokenmaxxing
Description
Tech founders discuss the inefficiency of prioritizing token consumption over actual product outcomes in AI
Transcript
was starting to pull back on its Claude you know its token usage and spend and for some people they're just saying look I'm calling it now market top the bubble has arrived it's about to collapse and it's about to crash yeah exactly and I wanted to get I wanted to get your perspective on it because I think there's two there's two angles that are important I think ultimately you had companies like Microsoft, you had companies like meta that you know allegedly were having leaderboards on who's spending the most tokens and then naturally there are some questions around what's the ROI of that spend so I guess from you really I want to hear what actually is the case why would you even go around or go about that path of getting people to have a leaderboard and measure and reward just token usage yeah rather than the outcomes or product quality Yeah, yeah,

