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Notes on AI spend, adoption and governance: where the money goes, who uses what, and how to run AI like any other line of business.

AI spend

Your Biggest AI Cost Isn't Your App. It's Your Team.

Coding tools took 55% of departmental AI spend in 2025. Every developer's agent burns far more tokens than your production app, and the bill shows one number.

August 11, 2026 · 4 min read

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AI spend

Why Tokenmaxxing Is Wrong (And Why the Industry's Fixes Fail Too)

Per-token prices fell 98%, enterprise AI bills rose 320%, and heavy users burn 10x the tokens for 2x the output. Why token leaderboards, naive model routers, and flat monthly caps all optimize the wrong thing.

November 2, 2026 · 5 min read

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Model routing

The Model-Switch Toll: When "Cheaper" Costs More

Moving an agent to a cheaper model mid-session can cost several times more than staying put. The arithmetic of the model-switch toll, and why the real routing question is when, not which.

October 20, 2026 · 5 min read

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Cost visibility

The Hidden Sub-Agent Tax: Unlogged Polling Inside Claude Code

Our telemetry audit of 379 Claude Code sessions and 199 sub-agent runs uncovered a background polling loop that re-sends each working sub-agent's full transcript every 30 seconds, accounts for up to 28% of requests in multi-agent sessions, and writes zero records to local disk logs.

October 1, 2026 · 4 min read

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AI governance

The Claude Budget Deadlock: What Happens When Someone Hits Their Limit

When someone hits their Claude spend limit, the work stops until an admin acts. At enterprise scale, the approval process can cost far more than the tokens it unblocks.

September 15, 2026 · 4 min read

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Cost visibility

When the Platform Burns Your Budget, and You Can't Even Tell

In February 2026 a Claude Code bug made usage limits drain faster than normal, and nobody could tell from their side. Would you know if it happened to your team?

June 30, 2026 · 4 min read

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