💸 AI 토큰 사용 과열과 그로 인한 연간 수십억 달러 낭비 문제

Just tell me what to buy bro

This feels like a rigged flywheel. If AI agents are used to amplify token usage who will audit that? This is like Musk saying he has hundred of millions of active users but under the hood you find troves of bots.. he's goosing the numbers, ripping off advertisers.

> writing a bot to spam tokens

That’s what agentic AI is….

So buy or sell?

Could that power user just be a dude using multi agent flows? Potentially running several of them.

I do think it’s dumb and wasteful(I only ever use a single agent and keep an active back and forth going so I can catch it being dumb early), but if I can see how stupid metrics could drive one to do something like this guy did.

In one sense, I could see how it's viewed as "waste", but I actually feel like the waste is necessary at this stage. Nobody has used these tools before, so there is a necessity to experiment and try different prompts and executions. And stress tests on what it's being used for. It's not something you can just walk in and execute on yet. So token usage is high. But you need to use tokens in order to learn how to implement, and you need to use tokens to help train it to be useful.

At least that's my perspective from working at a company that has high expectations for everyone to use the tools. So far, my department has found several uses in our field that have already started to alleviate a lot of the crappy parts of our roles so that we can focus on the other stuff we actually get paid to do.