Dayum. If I was given unlimited budget for AI I would do the same. Everyone should have a set personal budget for AI expense and they can keep it if they don't use AI.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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If I'm going to get a $20,000 bonus at the end of the year if I don't use any AI, I'm not going to use AI.
That's a big problem with this tech... how do you price it? I think companies would purchase an allotment of tokens that can be used or banked by employees. Problem is they'd always be cutting the token budget.
Where I work I have to have a meeting and justify a $100 license for software. So I don't know how this will work long term.
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I used to understand what computers were for and how they worked.
Gonna bump my gaming rig to 64GB as soon as these asshats get what we've all known was always coming to them
What a fuckin’ clown circus…
Just a little thought for my professors who overuse AI. Thanks guys for eating the tokens.
Ever since LLMs where provided free to the public, I've been pen testing them. Not intentionally, I just like tech and have wanted to explore them. After getting all the info they're designed not to provide(which is so fucking easy, even on the most recent models that have corporate PC baked in to the core can't do shit) I turned to token burning. I could easily get 1M/24hr, but they've brought that cost down to like $0.10 so its not doing much anymore. I think I saw a model specific script that's doing 52k/min.
Point is it takes a day of coding and a shit PC to just sit there burning money directly out of their budget. It wouldnt take that many people committed to doing this to make AI less feasible.