I looked at some data.

The average monthly AI cost per employee at big companies has reached $7,500.
Uber spent its entire annual AI budget in four months, now limiting each person to $1,500 per month.
Meta has released a leaderboard for internal token consumption—last year they were promoting "Claudeonomics" to encourage employees to use more AI, but this year they hit the brakes.
From token maxing to token minimizing. Just took a year.
Honestly, I’ve been controlling the costs of AI tools myself. AI tools can cost me a few hundred dollars a month.
It’s not that AI is bad. It’s that using it without regard to costs, no matter how good, just isn’t affordable...