AI for everything until the hefty bill comes
It turns out that “use AI for everything” is excellent advice — right up until the moment the bill arrives. Barely months after companies enthusiastically urged staff to embrace generative AI, a quieter, more accountable memo has gone out: slow down, we’re bleeding tokens. What began as a productivity revolution is bumping into a rather old-fashioned constraint — money.
The culprit is not a lack of enthusiasm. If anything, that’s the problem. Tokens — the basic units of text that AI models chew through to produce their outputs — are being consumed at a rate that has caught finance teams off guard.
