Smallish org, we rolled out the Claude desktop app to our first wave of users the other day. They started revving up cowork and burning through tokens. We were playing it by ear and seeing how much this team would burn through and they hit their token usage limit pretty fast.

Didn’t take long before the messages started rolling in.

“Hey can we get more tokens?”

“Sure, sure, how was the first run? What kinds of workflows did you set up? Everything working well?”

“Oh god, yes. This is great. This is amazing. Need more tokens.”

“That first hit is free but the second hit is gonna cost you dept budget.”

“Whatever it takes.”

These folks are like the hopped up monkeys in Jumanji, driving over sidewalks (other teams) and directly into buildings (product now thinks they can code) with ai all over their nose. And then we’ll wake up the next day and realize we actually accomplished nothing of any net benefit and did not save any money. In fact we went on a fucking BENDER and actually spent a fuck ton of money.