{"id":17008,"date":"2026-07-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:31:56","slug":"first-meta-now-the-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17008","title":{"rendered":"First Meta, now the US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After encouraging all their developers to use AI – including many companies that tracked how many tokens an employee used and used that for performance measurement and firing – many are now trying to hit the brakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Meta found out they were on track to spend $2B this year on tokens<\/a>. Now the US Army is telling it’s members to hit the brakes<\/a> as they’re running through their tokens faster than expected too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strange how people are taking advantage of the very things you told them to use with abandon or lose their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After encouraging all their developers to use AI – including many companies that tracked how many tokens an employee used and used that for performance measurement and firing – many are now trying to hit the brakes. First, Meta found out they were on track to spend $2B this year on tokens. Now the US Army is telling it’s members to hit the brakes as they’re running through their tokens faster than expected too. Strange how people are taking advantage…<\/p>\n

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