Token pricing has no ceiling: agents burn compute without breaks, reshaping enterprise AI billing
akumar · x · 2026-10-28
An argument that seat-based pricing was bounded by humans — limited click speed, lunch breaks — while agents can burn thousands of dollars of compute in an afternoon unnoticed until the invoice. The author follows up introducing Chumpulate, an enterprise AI control plane: see spend, set budgets and model policy, and invisibly route traffic through a proxy to open-weight models that cut costs 10x with no workflow changes.
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