Company Blew $500M on Claude AI in One Month

We humans tend to be so wasteful, especially with intangible things like tokens. I don't support this "tokenmaxxing" trend at all. Any business should strive to optimize for efficiency. It's ridiculous to think that spending more tokens correlates to higher-quality output or more money made. The law of diminishing returns applies here too. I'd just put all my employees on the $20 per month Claude plan and teach them to: 1. Still use their brains for either very complex or very mundane tasks 2. Be efficient with their limits 3. Build a mental connection like "tokens = money" otherwise they stay intangible

No wonder games always use their own currencies that also makes money intangible and increases spending.

What did they get in return? What changed when they turned it off? I’d love to read objective studies of this.

Unbelievable. Claude does everything I need for $200 a year.