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The cheap era of AI is over, and it is not coming back.
GPU rental up 48% in two months. Peak-hour throttling by design. Every turn rereads the whole context, and output costs 5x input.
Stefan Wolpers frames token discipline as personal skill. I go further: you cannot run an org on individual willpower. Cost has to be visible and governed by design, not after the fact.
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For two years we treated AI tokens as free. In June the bill arrived. Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Copilot went per-token and our devs burned 50 dollars each in the first hour.
A chatbot stops when you stop. An agent keeps going.
New issue of The CAIO: AI FinOps, the government letter that switched off frontier AI, Microsoft vs Knuth, Capgemini on falling trust in agents.
https://romanoroth.substack.com/p/the-bill-arrives-is-this-ai-request
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For two years we treated AI tokens as free. In June the bill arrived. Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Copilot went per-token and our devs burned 50 dollars each in the first hour.
A chatbot stops when you stop. An agent keeps going.
New issue of The CAIO: AI FinOps, the government letter that switched off frontier AI, Microsoft vs Knuth, Capgemini on falling trust in agents.
https://romanoroth.substack.com/p/the-bill-arrives-is-this-ai-request