Frontier AI is getting expensive. It's time to plan around that.
This feels like the next awkward phase of AI adoption.
First everyone rushed in because it felt cheap enough.
Now the bill is arriving and companies have to learn the boring adult version of using AI properly.
The panic is real, but walking away entirely is a massive unforced error.
It feels exactly like the early cloud days when companies got hit with their first massive AWS bill because nobody was monitoring idle instances.
The solution wasn't to move back to on-prem server closets; it was to actually learn how to architect for cost efficiency.
Blowing 12mths budget in 4mths is either blowing the budget, 3xing the ROI or simply poor controls. Either way the internal battle arrives with more controls ...
The companies that tier their models now won't flinch when the enterprise renewal hits.
Amazing! We did this at the startup I work at and ended up downsizing to Claude and Notion AI. Loved reading that piece.
Ooo Notion AI is a good callout. There’s a whole world of integration AI products I’m pretty ignorant to; good path for downsizing.
Yeah it’s amazing what you can do now!
This feels like the next awkward phase of AI adoption.
First everyone rushed in because it felt cheap enough.
Now the bill is arriving and companies have to learn the boring adult version of using AI properly.
The panic is real, but walking away entirely is a massive unforced error.
It feels exactly like the early cloud days when companies got hit with their first massive AWS bill because nobody was monitoring idle instances.
The solution wasn't to move back to on-prem server closets; it was to actually learn how to architect for cost efficiency.
Blowing 12mths budget in 4mths is either blowing the budget, 3xing the ROI or simply poor controls. Either way the internal battle arrives with more controls ...
The companies that tier their models now won't flinch when the enterprise renewal hits.
Amazing! We did this at the startup I work at and ended up downsizing to Claude and Notion AI. Loved reading that piece.
Ooo Notion AI is a good callout. There’s a whole world of integration AI products I’m pretty ignorant to; good path for downsizing.
Yeah it’s amazing what you can do now!