Sridhar Ramaswamy
speaker
383 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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is that uh
the money that we are spending on AI tokens.
is well worth the cost.
We continuously optimise.
Absolutely.
We don't tell people to token max or do dumb things like that.
It is about driving real results, impact as uh as it were.
And uh when our cost does go up, we have a good team that focuses on optimization, everything from what's the default model uh to can you create task graphs where the simpler aspects of solving a problem are handled by models that are not quite as uh expensive.
And my take is that we gain a lot by having people embrace the technology and feel like it can make a real difference to their job.
I feel pretty good about optimizing.
We also practice what we preach, where we have things like the AI gateway that's meant to make model access more efficient.
We are absolutely experimenting with open weight models because they can be a good vector for uh lowering costs.
Because we also control the harness, uh, which is Coco, a lot of our internal teams use, there's a lot of instrumentation that we have for.
What exactly are people doing?
How can we come up with better ways for doing the same thing?
Our support.
And our SRE teams, the folks that keep Snowflake up.
They spend a lot of money on tokens.
But on the other hand, if they are running through tens of thousands of alerts that are coming in every day, makes sense to go there and optimize because that's very leveraged work that can benefit everybody.
So, you know, yes, we are planning for it, but AI token costs it's not the top thing on my mind.
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