GeekWire AI summit takeaways: Token budgets, watermelon metrics, and the $5k weekend coder
March 28, 2026
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as posted by the channelFresh off the big GeekWire AI summit this week, Todd and John unpack what they heard from Microsoft EVP Charles Lamanna, OpenAI applications CTO Vijaye Raji, and other speakers at the Agents of Transformation event in Seattle () , presented by Accenture.
The big threadthe economics of AI, from token budgets () becoming a hiring negotiation point to startups running on subsidized credits that may not last.
Plus, a startup founder whose engineer burned through $5,000 in AI tokens over a single weekend of vibe coding, OpenAI shutting down Sora amid $15 million-a-day processing costs, and why one panelist says the metrics most companies are tracking are "watermelon metrics" — green (profit) on the outside, red (losses) on the inside.
Also: how Todd used a Claude project over several months to prep for the event, John's experience bouncing between Gemini and ChatGPT, and why the simplistic chat era may be over.
And in this week's triviaSound Transit's light rail starts crossing Lake Washington on a floating bridge () but when did the original I90 floating bridge open?
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.
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