Cloudflare CTO enforcing usage limits

CharlieDigital

> [falconetpt] We now have a tacking system where people were forced to send telemetry from codex/claude into the servers and people are auditing each session CTO did the same on my team. While a the same time chastising some of the more senior engineers for not always using frontier models. Engineering leadership in orgs is in a weird place right now.

freedomben

Sum: For visibility/awareness, not restriction. $300 in a day it emails just you, >$500 in a day it emails you and your manager. That seems pretty reasonable. Like, "let's make sure we aren't throwing away money on dumb stuff." If it were my org, as long as you can show something with it, you'd be fine. If you're spending that much per day creating throwaway vibe-coded PoCs for fun, or images of a pelican on a bicycle, it might be time to re-orient productivity. Seems pretty sensible/sane to me.

lbreakjai

It's funny how fast we went from "Token usage leaderboard! Use AI or you're fired!" to "You're not in trouble, we're just emailing your manager to celebrate your success , we're definitely not making you top of the list for the next culling, we're a family"

ParkRanger

2027 will be the year of model caps & optimization. Local >> cheap >> premium, depending on the task, your role, and expectations. Tokenomics are coming. “Prove to me you drove $100k with of value with your usage.”

ChrisArchitect

Related: Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335388

halamadrid

Is Anthropic rushing to an IPO because investors also fear it’s the peak? I guess it can grow even after the IPO but is there a fear that the spending will rationalize and hurt the valuations? I know AI companies make money, but the companies consuming these services, are they meaningfully making a revenue to justify the continued spend?