Ben Schaechter

Co-Founder & CEO of @JoinVantage: a cloud cost platform.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

“Okay - V for Vantage!”

[Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa]

Uber might look cheap here but budget discipline around AI is probably about to become normal

Unlimited token burn isn't a strategy and being disciplined about usage doesn't seem insane

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@MolloyLaurence Yeah agreed. Easy first guard rail....then ideally map to performance or outcome.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

Yup. Which is why you need to find an efficiency metric and measure on the unit cost. Once you have that, increase budget for top performers (or remove it altogether) and decrease budget for others.

Relevant posts:

- "Your Most Expensive Developer Might Be Your Most Efficient"
- "Token Budgeting: How To Think About AI Cost Control"

https://t.co/70loZrHJ09
https://t.co/UXnNzggzbG

[Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw]

Flat token cap across everyone in the org ensures you miss on the tiny fraction of employees that could 100x themselves.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@daiteskorosti Not sure I understand the message totally...but looking at a cost per PR, cost per bug fixed, cost per Linear issue closed or cost per feature shipped is infinitely better than just looking at token spend or consumption standalone.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@Gaploid Fair - but anything is better than nothing to start.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

Loving this era.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@TechCrunch Time for Vantage https://t.co/7g5Er9K2lp

[Negligible Capital @negligible_cap]

*UBER SETS $1,500 MONTHLY CAP ON SOME AI CODING TOOLS FOR STAFF

$UBER officially reeling in the Claude budget after blowing their AI budget earlier this year.

Undoubtedly more companies to follow

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@andyhattemer @itunpredictable Brutal.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@shaig I think your 2027 theme is already happening.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@paulg We can help, PG. https://t.co/7g5Er9K2lp

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@JayaGup10 ✊

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

It's a great time to be a cost management company.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

3 months from now:

Excited to share we are septupling down on our stake in Anthropic which is raising 10 quadradrillion at a kazillion dollar valuation.

We first invested 13 days ago in their Series N. We're very excited to support them into their Series W raise today.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

Dude what is even happening anymore.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@snpal2000 @benhylak Time to check out https://t.co/IbHYP9YFDi

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@VivekGaripalli There is a better way: https://t.co/7g5Er9K2lp

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@atShruti Greetings: https://t.co/7g5Er9K2lp

[Ben Schaechter @Bensign]

@dee_bosa Vantage: https://t.co/7g5Er9K2lp