AI 用量失控成本飙升 亚马逊等科技巨头开始限制员工 token 消耗
AI 用量爆炸导致成本失控，科技公司从狂欢转向预算管控，亚马逊大额投资与裁员并存。
亚马逊员工用 Claude 生成作者信息时，因 Agent 自动重试烧掉 180 万美元 token 费。各公司发现 AI 成本远超预期，Meta、Uber 等纷纷设限。亚马逊仍豪掷 2200 亿美元押注 AI，但裁员与自动化并行，引发就业担忧。
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Paper is expensive in Luoyang (an idiom for extreme popularity), and the explosion in Agent usage has become a nightmare for tech companies, which have unfortunately discovered: compared to AI, the biggest advantage of humans is that you can delay paying their salaries (x). According to employees of Amazon, the company recently wanted to use Claude Sonnet to fill in detailed author information for its own website. An Agent may fail, but it will also be tenacious, working day and night, retrying over and over. It was a calm day, and no one warned it "Please wait before trying again." Currently, the public price of Claude Sonnet is approximately $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. $1.8 million could burn through up to 600 billion tokens — in terms of data volume al…