Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad
The San Francisco startup says its software tracks 20,000 engineers at 500 companies as firms seek measurable output from AI coding tools.
- A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything see costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC earlier this month that something had gone "Completely wrong," channeling the voice of American businesses privately "livid" about paying so much for tokens that create no value.
- Bain & Company management consultant Jue Wang said many big businesses are examining investment returns as "The token cost for them has been doubling, almost every other month." At $200 per developer monthly across 20,000 developers, costs quickly exceed planned budgets.
- BNY CFO Dermot McDonogh said the bank prioritizes capacity creation over token volume, stating, "We haven't reduced the footprint, but it's allowed us to do more with the footprint that we have."
- Over the next 12 to 18 months, enterprises are shifting from raw scale to accountability, with spend continuing to grow but under pressure to show value. Bitz expects engineering teams to be measured on AI-driven output rather than tooling adoption.
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The AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ corporate fad is fading as workplaces look to cut costs
A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.What started as tech industry-fueled springtime hype over squeezing as much AI-generated work as possible out of products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude has shifted to a summertime backlash.“It’s very easy to create something you don’t…
AI startup Weave raises $13.5M to help companies measure AI coding ROI and end ‘tokenmaxxing’ - Tech Startups
For years, software teams measured engineering output with familiar metrics such as lines of code, commit counts, and deployment frequency. AI coding assistants have changed that equation. A single prompt can now generate thousands of lines of code in seconds, […] The post AI startup Weave raises $13.5M to help companies measure AI coding ROI and end ‘tokenmaxxing’ first appeared on Tech Startups.
Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab
New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into production, and the spend behind them isn’t disappearing, it’s just sitting in limbo. Jon Bitz, chief relationship officer and co-founder at KloudStax, says that limbo isn’t the failure it looks like from the outside. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
Weave's cofounders Andrew Churchill (left) and Adam Cohen (center).WeaveWeave raised $13.5 million for its platform that tracks software engineers' AI spend. The startup quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid tokenmaxxing.Weave's Series A was led by Standard Capital with investments from Y Combinator and Moonfire.A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more…
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