Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer

Meta's Instagram head Adam Mosseri anticipates that within a year or two, AI token usage by engineers could equal their salary costs, necessitating spending caps. Meta has already taken steps to control AI token expenses, including ending an internal leaderboard, amid concerns of escalating AI costs. Mosseri compares managing AI token budgets to other business resources, suggesting future caps will depend on trust in engineers' ROI-positive use of tokens.