The company i work for is spending the equivalent of the yearly salary of a dozen engineers, worth of tokens per month. It recently surpassed our monthly cloud spend bill.

We have people who are running the same tasl 10 times in parallel and having one LLm write a prompt for another LLm to execute then sitting on their phone for an hour while they let the AI's battle it out. For tasks that should take 3 minutes. Then having another coding agent make a PR, update JIRA tickets, etc.

Frankly it blows my mind that so many developers have so little actual understanding of cost associated with AI.