Comment by spqw
4 days ago
This + making sure common requests are saved as reusable skills and scripts would probably save a large part of my token usage
As prices increase we will see more of these tools to optimise and make the best use of token budget
100%, from what we've seen, for a lot of big companies that 1. don't have subsidized usage and 2. are pushing AI adoption hard, figuring out token costs is P0 or P1 for their eng leadership
So you're saying that since adopting AI/LLM tech many companies have their top engineering priority being optimizing the costs of that rather than ... addressing actual business needs?
I guess delivering business value is always #1, I just meant it's the biggest problem they're trying to solve. Here's a recent example that was public: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-c...