Tag: SaaS
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Drawing Dead | An Architect’s Perspective on the Enterprise AI Bet
Photo by Julian Gojani on Unsplash You know what you are holding. Two cards, face down, and you have looked at them enough times to stop looking. You know the rules of the game, which hands beat which, and roughly how often the deck cooperates. You know how many chips are on your side of…
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The Meter is a Map
Photo by Tyler on Unsplash Author’s Note When I published The Token Tax three weeks ago, I expected the cost conversation around enterprise AI to keep growing. I did not expect it to accelerate this quickly. In the time since, the same pattern has surfaced across the industry in plain view: companies exhausting an entire…
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The Token Tax
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash Beginning in late 2022, during the preview conversations for the first iteration of Copilot, through its launch and at intervals ever since, I told Microsoft’s product team that speed to launch was a short-term advantage. It mattered, of course. In a market defined by attention, fear, and executive urgency,…
