{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"If a $500K Engineer Isn't Burning $250K in Tokens a Year, an Alarm Should Go Off","slug":"if-a-500k-engineer-isn-t-burning-250k-in-tokens-a-year-an-alarm-should-go-off","published_at":"2026-07-21T20:22:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/if-a-500k-engineer-isn-t-burning-250k-in-tokens-a-year-an-alarm-should-go-off","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/If-a-500K-Engineer-Isnt-Burning-250K-in-Tokens-a-Year--an-Alarm-Should-Go-Off-e3mbkpd","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/123113709/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-21%2Fb5ea0853-6832-f14f-3dec-c6f67f2344d8.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at a line attributed to Jensen Huang that stopped the reader mid-scroll: if an engineer earning $500K a year isn't spending $250K on AI tokens annually, an alarm should go off. It works through what that framing actually implies — token spend as a proxy for effort, measured against salary — and sets it alongside a run of related stories: Salesforce freezing engineer hiring while committing billions to Anthropic tokens, Meta ranking 85,000 employees by token usage, Uber burning through its entire annual AI budget by April. There's also a quieter data point underneath all of it: tech layoffs in 2026 are running at over a thousand people a day, around half attributed to AI, with engineers now being cut at the resume stage who would have sailed through to interviews a year ago. A brief look at one visible pitfall, too — Microsoft engineers reportedly consuming $8,000 in tokens per day each, until leadership stepped in — and what happens when a measurable number becomes a performance metric: the same structure as meaningless overtime at a company that rewards long hours. A quiet reflection on what it feels like when token costs and labor costs start being discussed in the same breath, and why the more important question may not be how much to use AI, but where to hand things off and where to hold the work yourself.","meta_description":"This episode looks at a line attributed to Jensen Huang that stopped the reader mid-scroll: if an engineer earning $500K a year isn't spending $250K on AI…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":211,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/if-a-500k-engineer-isn-t-burning-250k-in-tokens-a-year-an-alarm-should-go-off/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/if-a-500k-engineer-isn-t-burning-250k-in-tokens-a-year-an-alarm-should-go-off.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}