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The AI Free Ride Is Starting to End

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Cartoon-style illustration of a worried office worker sitting at a desk in front of a laptop while reviewing a report that shows rapidly rising costs. The report features a gauge in the red zone and a stack of coins, suggesting escalating expenses. Large windows behind him reveal a city skyline at sunset, while coffee cups and a laptop on the desk reinforce the corporate office setting. The image symbolizes growing concern over the rising cost of AI tools and enterprise technology spending.The AI subsidy era is ending, and the bills are finally showing up.

Microsoft is reportedly cutting back internal Claude Code licenses and steering developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI instead. It matters because this is Microsoft, not some cash-strapped startup. This is the company that poured billions into OpenAI, owns GitHub, and runs one of the biggest cloud businesses on earth. If even Microsoft is looking at token-based usage and deciding the math does not work, everyone else should probably pay attention. [Read more…]

AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it

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A cartoon office worker at a desk surrounded by multiple screens and notifications while a friendly robot keeps handing them more tasks, showing overload.There’s a growing argument that AI is increasing the intensity of work instead of reducing it, and honestly, that tracks.

Everyone keeps talking about how AI is supposed to save time. That’s technically true. The problem is what happens next.

You finish something in half the time, and instead of getting breathing room, you get more work. Not later. Immediately. What used to be a full day turns into half a day, and now you’re expected to fill the rest. That’s what people are actually feeling right now. It’s not less work. It’s the same job compressed and then expanded again. [Read more…]

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