Selling Claude Code token optimization services to medium sized businesses and enterprise is a multimillion dollar business idea.

The caveat is that you’re chasing a moving to target (how CC operates under the hood), and that Anthropic will eventually build the optimization features into their native platform (thereby killing this idea).

But if you’re technically enough to figure it out and take a massive action quickly, there’s money to be made.

Research shows excessive token burn - and the costs associated with it - is by far the #1 problem amongst the type of companies that are actually spending serious money on AI.

RT brett goldstein
travel is the ultimate low status brain rot pastime

I traveled around the world for a year and realized the world is all the same minus a few places.

you will find more meaning building a business, a body of artistic works, or a family than gorging yourself on travel https://x.com/INTERIORPORN1/status/2055721182771486934/video/1

I literally just had to do this

POS put his bag right above my seat then walked to the back of the plane

Took it right down and put mine there lol

h/t to @Jason______AJason Applebaum: Beta male … if someone’s extra bag is in my overhead bin I will put it on the floor in the aisle and put my bag in the bin.

Zero way my bag is not going over my head when I paid for that first class seat.

Here let me show you how it’s done when you’re not a pussy.

Step one

As someone who’s always been a reader and writer I really don’t like who I become when after a week of heavy AI usage.

Will be using it for automating tasks but if you’re using it for thinking odds are it’s not going to turn out well.Mehdi (e/λ): je me demande sincèrement si vous mesurez l'ampleur du massacre cognitif silencieux qu'on est en train d'assister collectivement

une génération entière déjà fragile cognitivement transfère ce qui restait de sa pensée à chatgpt pour 20 euros par mois et appelle ça une

RT Coddled Affluent Professional
Traveling really isn’t that impressive. It’s not hard to do. You just go to an airport and get on a plane. It’s not a big accomplishment. Then you go somewhere and you have no responsibilities or obligations and just wander around and so of course it’s pleasurable enough. Traveling is fine. I’ve been to about 45 countries. But it’s not worth making big sacrifices for or delaying real life more than a year or two or anything like that.INTERIOR PORN: OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭

RT Official Layoff
The first 8,000 Meta layoffs hit Wednesday. What's happening to the people still employed and the anxiety of not knowing if you’re next is insane.

SF Standard published an interview with an anonymous Meta employee ahead of the cuts. They used a voice actor. Meta started keystroke-logging staff.

Inside the company right now:

Internal leaderboards rank employees by how many AI tokens they burn. By minutes spent in the chatbot. Workers are openly admitting they ask the bot inane questions to pad their numbers, because being on the wrong end of the leaderboard is a risk signal.

HR told the all-hands AI usage won't factor into layoffs. The leaderboard exists anyway.

AI notes are auto-on in every video meeting. People manually disable them so they can talk candidly about who might be next.

How you find out you're laid off: 7am email to your personal inbox. By the time you read it, your work accounts are already dead. So one Meta engineer wrote a script that scrapes internal profiles to see whose status flipped to deactivated. This employee runs a personal spreadsheet on top of it to track coworkers.

An internal post suggested teams who successfully build their own AI replacement should get 5 years of comp and then be let go as a reward for replacing themselves. It got heavy upvotes.

Zuckerberg's all-hands message, paraphrased: AI is moving fast, nobody knows what's coming, leadership is doing their best.

This is the Hidden Layoff in operation. The headline number is 8,000. A whole different story is what's being done to those still employed. Surveilled. Ranked by AI usage. Asked to train their replacement. Told to suck it up.

Employee's words: "Even if we haven't lost our jobs to AI yet, we're being commoditized in advance."

We reported on the 6,000 additional new roles they cancelled earlier this week, along with the additional 8,000 layoffs planned later in 2026. That’s 22,000 roles either cancelled or cut for 2026.

Now we have insight into how they’re deciding who comes next.
Emily Dreyfuss: Today I published an interview with an anonymous Meta employee who has worked at the company for over a decade and wanted, for the first time ever, to let the world know how horrible it feels to be inside. https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/05/15/meta-employee-gets-real-horror-working-right-now/#comments

RT Mehdi (e/λ)
je me demande sincèrement si vous mesurez l'ampleur du massacre cognitif silencieux qu'on est en train d'assister collectivement

une génération entière déjà fragile cognitivement transfère ce qui restait de sa pensée à chatgpt pour 20 euros par mois et appelle ça une révolution, le pire c'est que ces gens publient des threads dont ils ne maîtrisent ni le contenu ni les sources, incapables de distinguer le réel de l'hallucination dans ce que le modèle leur sort et ils inondent le débat public avec des fake news bien tournées qui circulent uniquement parce que la forme est léchée

c'est exactement ça l'illusion du savoir au 21e siècle, des phrases parfaitement structurées sur la forme et complètement vides sur le fond, des gens qui croient avoir une opinion alors qu'ils ont juste impressionné une audience pendant 10 secondes avec du langage cosmétique généré par une machine qu'ils utilisent sans rien comprendre et le drame c'est qu'eux-mêmes finissent par croire qu'ils pensent réellement parce que le texte sort en français correct alors que leur cerveau a juste sous-traité l'opération cognitive la plus précieuse de l'humanité qui est de structurer une pensée

perso j’ai envie de dire ce qu’ils croient gagner en clarté ils le perdent en profondeur mais ce qu'ils ne réalisent pas c'est que la capacité à structurer sa propre pensée EST JUSTEMENT l'accès au savoir, c'est ce qui permet d'articuler ses idées, de déconstruire les dogmes de remonter aux premiers principes et de démonter les arguments des autres avec précision, sous traiter cette compétence à un LLM c'est exactement comme sous traiter sa propre digestion à une machine, vous ne nourrissez plus votre cerveau vous nourrissez juste l'illusion d'avoir mangé

la question terrifiante que personne pose c'est quelle sera la valeur économique d'un humain en 2035 dont le cortex a passé 10 ans à attendre que la machine finisse sa pensée et pour moi le calcul est implacable, quand 4 milliards de personnes ont accès à la même intelligence pour 20 euros par mois la seule prime de valeur portera sur les humains qui ont gardé un cortex capable de produire du signal original

et sachez que ce type de cortex se construit avec 15 ans de lecture profonde, d'écriture lente, de doute méthodique et de pensée silencieuse (ce que je ne cesse de pousser/recommander ici à travers mes différents threads) et c’est exactement le contraire de ce qu'enseigne l’IA générative à la population générale aujourd'hui

AI job loss among women will cause an explosion in sex work / prostitution

I normally troll and shit post here but I am legitimately concerned about this.

Between OF, sugar babies, etc sex work has already exploded over the past 10 years.

Now imagine millions of “boss babes” out of a job with no prospects on the horizon.

With independence being core to women’s identities these days, mass AÍ job loss could destroy them psychologically.

And if they turned to sex work to stay independent, it could be the final nail in the coffin that kills marriage as an institution.

Could even be the final straw that breaks the camels back in terms of the decline of western civilization.

Polymarket: NEW: Analysis reveals female-dominated corporate roles are more vulnerable to AI automation than male roles.

These are the kind of AI use cases I appreciate.

Something that would take a person an incredibly long time to do AND that the person doing it would hate and prefer to use technology to automate.

Boring_Business: Just spoke with a small business owner who used Claude to go through an entire year’s worth of spend data to figure out where he could cut down the budget for his business

Almost overnight reduced opex by 15% by pointing out software spend for seats not being used and

RT GRITCULT
unpopular opinion: you should make every major life decision in under 72 hours.

the person agonising for 6 months over whether to quit, move, start, or leave already knows the answer. they knew in the first 10 minutes. the remaining 5 months and 29 days is just fear dressed up as due diligence.

"but what if i make the wrong choice?"

wrong choices are correctable. indecision is not. you can recover from a bad decision in weeks. you cannot recover the years you spent avoiding one.

the cost of a wrong decision is almost always lower than the cost of no decision. always.

more is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

the people who move fast dont have more certainty than you. they just have less tolerance for standing still.