AI Token Spending Out of Control — 15 Companies Surveyed, Meta Employees Burned 60 Trillion Tokens in 30 Days
The Pragmatic Engineer·medium signal
The Pragmatic Engineer surveyed 15 companies on AI spend crisis. Meta employees used 60.2T tokens in 30 days ($100M+ even at discount rates). 'Tokenmaxxing' — developers purposefully inflating AI usage to hit metrics — is rampant at Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce. 30% of respondents hit spending limits. GitHub Copilot and Anthropic now throttling less-profitable individual users.