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#ai-economics

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#ai-economics

The Subsidy, Itemized

Twenty-six days of Claude Code showed $2,556 of API-priced work against a $200 subscription. The lesson was not the total. It was cache behavior, model routing, and a government kill switch that landed in my usage chart. Value lives in verified outcomes, not tokens, and the work has to survive the stop.

10 min read · 2.0k words
#engineering-leadership

The AI Operating Ledger

Enterprise AI is entering its accounting phase. The winners will measure verified outcomes, not just tokens, subscriptions, or generated output.

11 min read · 2.2k words