You can't see what models they use or which tasks are expensive, which makes it very hard to help them
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Astra used 20x and Fable used 15x of what Sol did
In the thread “Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using /cost to track individual task spending.
Got in the way: Lack of visibility into models and expensive tasks in admin tools.
… What you can see is how many tokens a user consumes and the total number of tasks they've initiated as well as whatever running agents they have. You can't see what models they use or which tasks are expensive, which makes it very hard to help them. Early on we had an employee who hit their limit in an hour, and it turned out they had basically uploaded a lot of information and run it in a single long task that kept going over it again and again. …