Consultant accidentally spends $500 million in one month: 'Half a billion dollars gone'

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• Some companies have even been encouraging their workers to use as much AI as possible. They've gamified it, encouraging workers to get creative with the ways they use AI. It's been coined “tokenmaxxing": employers are pushing their workers to use these agents as much as possible. Presumably they didn't consider the cost of this before doing so? Because AI use isn't free. The tokens cost money, so wasting them on tasks like checking the weather or asking inane questions is just a silly usecase. 

  Now, there are cautionary tales like this one. It has the makings of a tall tale, but it's probably true, and it's probably not even the only case of this. 

• Goodness gracious

  
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  Consultants try to figure out how someone lost a half billion dollars in just a few months, as 3 models depict.

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  Apparently coders can find ways to use AI near constantly. Maybe this worker set up something like that, managing to ping the AI agent every few minutes, or maybe even every few seconds. It's hard to imagine how many questions this employee must've asked to hit that insane quota. 

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  Even if the number itself is a bit of an overstatement, there are workplaces who are punishing any employees who don't use their agents enough. We'll absolutely see more workplaces fall victim to this before long. 

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  Subjects depict employees who are discussing ways to get out of financial trouble after a consultant spends half a billion dollars on AI tokens.

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