Then yesterday we hit our company AI quota for the month, so the whole company has to wait 2 weeks for it to reset. Entire teams are claiming they’re blocked. If it’s true we’re being measured against our AI usage, will work without AI during this time ever matter?

It also seems like a few tokenmaxxers could overrun the quota for the whole company. If the quota remains the same, I’m predicting we’ll see a race to use as much AI as possible after each reset, so people can get what they want out of it before it’s gone again. Potentially meaning more and more time each month without the tools for a majority of the organization. Time will tell on that one. It will be interesting to see what the company really values more, AI use or the money it costs them.

And yeah, token usage as a KPI is a trend I notice across orgs too. Mostly in the 'hypomania' stage where the company is blind to the ROI they're getting out of AI. In saner companies, at least short-term, the human arbitrage should get realised during cooldowns like this. But then again, we're just a few cycles away from better quantization and efficient inference engines. Meaning, relaxed token limits. Also, there's local models getting on par with cloud models. At a point, the quota friction will disappear. The measure will get normalised! That's a hard thing to imagine tbh.