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Claude Opus 4.8, browser in Codex, tokenmaxxing, and the upcoming AI IPO bear case nobody wants to hear
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The dead internet theory is no longer a theory. AI-generated content has so thoroughly contaminated the web that developers are buying pre-2021 human-written code to validate training data. If it existed before 2021, there's a chance it was real. After that — who knows.
One company — reportedly Amazon — accidentally spent $500 million in a single month on AI tokens after failing to put cloud usage limits on employee accounts.
Amazon reportedly spent $500 million in a single month on AI tokens after employees had no usage limits on their cloud accounts. If you're setting AI strategy by how many tokens you burn, this is where that logic ends — a nine-figure cloud bill, no cap, no return measurement.
