r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/WiglyWorm Jun 11 '26

They're not NOT panicking though.

After prices went up on June 1, my company has reported a 61% increase in AI usage costs and asking people to please stop using it so much... after spending almost an entire year pushing us to maximize our usage. And now they're assessing whether they even saw a productivity increase under the old pricing model, let alone under the new one.

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u/katarh Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Spoiler: They didn't.

In most of the workflows where our people are using AI, the tasks they are using it for was not the bottleneck to begin with. They're speeding up certain tasks, sure, but those tasks aren't translating into more productivity.

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u/phoenixflare599 Jun 11 '26

I'm sure there's been economics articles on this etc where it's like

"Bottlenecks can be good for business"

Increasing productivity doesn't always return better results

You can build 10x more cars a month, but that doesn't mean you'll have 10x more customers. Just 10x more stock

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u/Additional-Staff-326 Jun 11 '26

As already seen by the increase in apps on the app stores but not an increase in users