Grace Griffaton

I tweet about the news, reality TV & Philly sports. Opinions are 🙋‍♀️ Retweets 🚫 endorsements

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

"Life's a beach, and I'm digging it!" @dog_rates

[theficouple @theficouple]

Reminder for all young parents:

You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager

This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

I’ve wondered this. Who is footing the bill on billions of AI requests?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is closing the nation's primary bee research laboratory.

[Philadelphia 76ers @sixers]

thank you, @dmorey.

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

This is a must-read thread

[Grok @grok]

That's correct. The government (via taxpayer-funded Treasury) collected those tariffs from importers and is now refunding them because the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unlawful. Importers often passed the costs to consumers through higher prices, but refunds go only to the companies that paid CBP—not consumers directly. Any price relief for shoppers depends on whether businesses choose to pass savings along.

[Mike @mhc_76]

The Maxey convo basically comes down to whether or not you think this is a Ben Simmons situation and he lost the ability to be a high volume 3PT shooter overnight or if it's bc he's probably getting surgery on his finger in a couple days

Gonna go with the latter

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

The Sixers have ruined Mother’s Day 🥲

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

It looks like a Knicks home game. This is so depressing

[John Clark @JClarkNBCS]

Way too many New York Knicks fans waiting in line to get in. And some of them brought brooms 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Matty @TailgateSA]

My hottest sports take is that if your stadium was funded by tax payers your games should be on free, network TV.

Yes, I'm annoyed that I have to buy 3 streaming services and cable to watch the Spurs playoff games.

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

@LegionHoops If anyone is to blame for this series going south, it’s the front office 😒

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

We had it in our hands. We needed to capitalize on the Knicks’ mistakes. We did not. Too many turnovers. Too many random threes. Maxey went ghost. Maybe he was too gassed? We did make them work, so that’s a positive.

[Eğitim ve Motivasyon @egitimvemotivas]

New York’lu psikiyatrist Rami Kaminski, yeni bir kişilik yapısını tanıttı:

"Otrovert" adını verdiği kişilik dışarıdan sosyal görünen ama tekrar normal hissetmek için çok fazla yalnız kalmaya ihtiyacı olan biri. Gerektiğinde konuşabilirler, gülebilirler ve etkileşime geçebilirler ama çok fazla etkileşimde bulunmaları onları tüketir.

Antisosyal değiller sadece farklı şekilde şarj olurlar. İnsanlarla birlikte olmak ile kendi enerjilerini korumak arasında sessiz bir denge kurarlar.

12 temel özellikleri: (flood)

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

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[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

Good. Rest.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Just in: Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has been ruled out for Game 2 tonight against the New York Knicks due to ankle and hip injuries, sources tell ESPN.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

The NBA just announced the 76ers win over the Celtics on Saturday was the most watched 1st-round game in over 25 years, and the most watched 1st-round Game 7 of all-time. Insane.

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

This is an amazing tweet. I thought we were doneso after Celtics Game 1. Heck, we all knew they’d lose Game 1 in NY. It stinks losing horrendously, but they’re tired. Let them rest, regroup and see what they do,

[Mike @mhc_76]

Hard to imagine the Sixers winning a series after losing Game 1 by 30+

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

@ohnohedidnt24 @JoelEmbiid And if you buy any please, send two my way 🥹 never been to a post-season game!

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

@ohnohedidnt24 @JoelEmbiid buy a whole section of tickets and give them to Sixers fans!!!!

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

The NBA is really asking for someone to get hurt with just ONE day between series…. Why not Tuesday? 🤨

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

I can’t believe I’m not oversharing my darkest emotions on this platform tonight. What parallel universe are we living in??

[Grace Griffaton @GraceGriffaton]

My house turned off the game. The season is over. Embiid is amazing, but he can’t be the miracle worker every time. When will we round? When will we hit consistent threes? When will we have a decent bench?