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Jeff Escalante

Aug 12, 2026

3:34
So,
3:35
yeah, um, I did a, I did a fun little project recently where we, um, at least at clerk, we all kind of use subscriptions, um, because that's a good way to get a good value for AI coding.
3:49
Um, but because of that, we don't have like a company dashboard of like what everybody is using.
3:55
Um, and, I was curious for a couple of reasons.
3:58
One, because if subscriptions go away, which I sure hope they don't, but it's certainly possible, what kind of spend difference would we be looking at to support the amount of usage that everybody's after and how scary is that? And two, just general kind of anomaly detection.
4:17
If somebody goes up a crazy amount in the amount of tokens they're using or drops a precipitous amount, maybe something has gone off the rails.
4:26
in some direction.

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24:32
this.
6:18
Nice
6:18
...
6:18
in the middle of the city and barely knew how to speak Spanish [chuckles] to be honest.
6:24
Uh, so it was really trial by fire.
6:26
Um, really cool experience.
6:28
But I took, um, I, I enrolled in a software engineering course there, um, because previously I had, I'd sort of been doing science classes.
6:38
I'd been chasing down, like you mentioned, the neuroscience degree.

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26:49
Uh-huh.

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