Karl Mehta(@karlmehta):Replit CEO Amjad Masad (@amasad) says friends told him someone left an AI agent running overnight and woke up to $10,000 of wasted tokens. "We've seen a lot of companies where CFOs and CTOs have gone publicly and said, we're just burning tokens for no reason." "Someone used $10,000 of tokens, and they had no idea because they put the agent to run and they went to sleep." "And the next day it was like $10,000 worth of tokens, just like in the garbage." "And so I think token capital needs to be managed very rationally." - Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, on The Times Tech Podcast. Uploaded October 4, 2026.

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Replit CEO Amjad Masad (@amasad) says friends told him someone left an AI agent running overnight and woke up to $10,000 of wasted tokens. "We've seen a lot of companies where CFOs and CTOs have gone publicly and said, we're just burning tokens for no reason." "Someone used $10,000 of tokens, and they had no idea because they put the agent to run and they went to sleep." "And the next day it was like $10,000 worth of tokens, just like in the garbage." "And so I think token capital needs to be managed very rationally." - Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, on The Times Tech Podcast. Uploaded October 4, 2026.