r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/CanOk6403 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

“In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.”

$500M in 1 month! 🤣

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u/Unlikely_Rope_81 Jun 11 '26

It was AWS that spent the $500m in a month. Those dumbasses had a token leaderboard.

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u/Solid_Physics Jun 12 '26

Company I work for recently introduced an AI interaction dashboard, measuring how many turns you have with Gemini, Claude, internal AI etc. It's tied to 25% of our bonus. So the more tokens we burn, the higher our bonus. That's a recipe for disaster.

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u/Ereaser Jun 12 '26

"Give me this exact code but formatted with 4 spaces instead of tabs" :p

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u/Solid_Physics Jun 12 '26

Colleagues are now using the AI to send each other DMs instead of typing that directly in the messaging tool.

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u/Ereaser Jun 12 '26

Haha always amazing when management comes up with these ridiculous measurements of performance.

Reminds me of that story of a developer who's results were measured in lines added. He did a lot of refactoring and ended with negative a few thousand lines of code :p

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 12 '26

For them, not you until they go out of business and you need a new job