There you have it! Token bills keep climbing, the Senate just rejected even a watered-down bill o…
October 2, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! Token bills keep climbing, the Senate just rejected even a watered-down bill on data center electricity costs, and AI infrastructure spending could hit $10.3 trillion by 2032.
Here's my take: we're lucky that most big-company leaders are so incompetent and have no clue how to use AI. They're throwing darts at the wall hoping something sticks. If they had actually read REPLACEMENT, the job impact would already be far more significant. In a way, I'm glad it only hit the Amazon bestseller list and not the New York Times list. Fewer people read it, fewer people figured it out.
Here's the point everyone keeps missing. Sure, tokens aren't cheap. EY found 98% of leaders say token costs are forcing them to rethink their AI approach, and 82% are worried about it, but only 64% actually track usage with real budgets. That's not a pricing problem. That's a competence problem.
If you know how to use tokens to create real value, not just generate another pptx deck nobody reads, agentic work costs almost nothing compared to what it takes to do that same work without it. I don't think twice about my token bill. I'd pay ten times what I pay today and still come out net profitable.
So here it is: thanks to the incompetence of most corporate leadership, people will keep their jobs a little while longer. Don't get too comfortable. It only takes 1% of these companies to catch up before the job impact becomes very real.
Full story on UnbiasedHeadlines.com: https://lnkd.in/eNXmeDdi
And you, do you think tokens are expensive?
Here's my take: we're lucky that most big-company leaders are so incompetent and have no clue how to use AI. They're throwing darts at the wall hoping something sticks. If they had actually read REPLACEMENT, the job impact would already be far more significant. In a way, I'm glad it only hit the Amazon bestseller list and not the New York Times list. Fewer people read it, fewer people figured it out.
Here's the point everyone keeps missing. Sure, tokens aren't cheap. EY found 98% of leaders say token costs are forcing them to rethink their AI approach, and 82% are worried about it, but only 64% actually track usage with real budgets. That's not a pricing problem. That's a competence problem.
If you know how to use tokens to create real value, not just generate another pptx deck nobody reads, agentic work costs almost nothing compared to what it takes to do that same work without it. I don't think twice about my token bill. I'd pay ten times what I pay today and still come out net profitable.
So here it is: thanks to the incompetence of most corporate leadership, people will keep their jobs a little while longer. Don't get too comfortable. It only takes 1% of these companies to catch up before the job impact becomes very real.
Full story on UnbiasedHeadlines.com: https://lnkd.in/eNXmeDdi
And you, do you think tokens are expensive?