The CFO question of the era: if you got hit by a car, would token usage drop to zero?
danshipper · x · 2026-08-18
Fortune's Dan Shipper quotes a tweet joking that CFOs everywhere are now asking everyone in their organization: "if you got hit by a car, would your token usage drop to zero?"
The dark humor captures a real truth about enterprise AI adoption — much of the "AI productivity gain" is tied to individual employees' personal accounts and habits, and vanishes the moment that person leaves.
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