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Token costs now a major budget line for AI coding

Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

The fact that tokens went from something no one even put in a budget line a year ago to an absolute requirement for coding now is the cause of handwringing, not that AI is not turning out to be useful (& increasing necessary) No one knows who should get tokens, how much & how to control it all.

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14 days ago
Token costs now a major budget line for AI coding — AIBriefs