You can set spending limits, but I don't feel like that helps much because everyone's accustomed to AI. Nobody would accept "We're out of usage so we have to wait until Monday" and do all of their work manually.
I believe that we're in a scenario where usage is unlikely to go down and neither are frontier AI costs.
I believe we'll see a shift to more organizations building their own harnesses with model routing logic to get central control over who can use what AI and for what.
A marketer doesn't need to default to Opus 5.5 to upload a blog article with MCP, which could be done by a model 10% of the price.
You can set spending limits, but I don't feel like that helps much because everyone's accustomed to AI. Nobody would accept "We're out of usage so we have to wait until Monday" and do all of their work manually.
I believe that we're in a scenario where usage is unlikely to go down and neither are frontier AI costs.
I believe we'll see a shift to more organizations building their own harnesses with model routing logic to get central control over who can use what AI and for what.
A marketer doesn't need to default to Opus 5.5 to upload a blog article with MCP, which could be done by a model 10% of the price.
Disagree with this because we have ways to steer price use per task.
1. choose a good model
2. choose the appropriate reasoning effort
3. choose a prompt to nudge it even further
Then it comes down to understanding the intuition of what kind of task deserves what effort?