「Token焼却」がKPIになり、プログラマーが1ヶ月で15万円を費やす
Author: Xiaojing
Silicon Valley is trending a new term: Tokenmaxxing.
Within Meta and OpenAI, engineers have begun competing on AI usage leaderboards. According to foreign media reports, one engineer even consumed 210 billion tokens in a week, equivalent to the text of 33 Wikipedias. Some people have AI bills as high as $150,000 per month.
An engineer at Ericsson in Stockholm spent more money on Claude than his own salary, but the bill was covered by the company. Token budgets are becoming a new type of work benefit for engineers, "just like free snacks or free lunch used to be."
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke released an internal memo as early as April 2025, announcing that "AI usage is a baseline expectation at Shopify," requiring all teams