Big companies putting a cap on #GenerativeAI token spend is just them admitting the thing does not work, but they do not want to admit the thing does not work.

If the slop machine worked to increase productivity like they have been saying, they would continue the initial discourse of "maximizing token spend = maximizing productivity".

The reality is productivity does not increase. In fact if your definition of productivity takes into account tools cost, it abruptly plummets.