Disney is pushing tech employees to move faster with AI — but avoid 'tokenmaxxing'
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Disney’s push to increase AI velocity while warning against “tokenmaxxing” is the first wave of cost discipline hitting internal model usage. If you’re rolling out AI broadly, you need hard guardrails on context length, model choice, and prompt patterns or your infra bill will quietly eat the upside.
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