A few months ago at my job they told us all to use AI as much as we could and they would be measuring and talking to the bottom 10% of AI users to figure out "how we can help you use more AI".

This month we ran out of tokens and they changed the policy to "please use cheap models only" and "please be more thoughtful in your AI usage so everyone has enough tokens."

So which is it? Use it as much as possible anywhere I can, or use it only where I know it will give me a good result?

As someone who is forced to use AI to hit my token quotas, I'll tell you that there's a reason the cheap models are cheap.

The bubble is bursting faster than I expected. Companies are going to be cutting back. They'll be forced to re-hire real people. They'll be forced to only use AI where it is actually cost effective instead of where they dream it might be cost effective.