‘You just hired a million bad employees’: How the brief tokenmaxxing era delivered the opposite of what it promised

George Sivulka, founder of AI startup Hebbia, argues that companies hastily deployed AI agents without proper management systems, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs. The article highlights Amazon's $500 million loss from AI failures and Ford's return to hiring human engineers, drawing a historical parallel to a 19th-century railroad crash that spurred industry management reforms.