You can set spending limits, but I don't feel like that helps much because everyone's accustomed to AI. Nobody would accept "We're out of usage so we have to wait until Monday" and do all of their work manually.
I believe that we're in a scenario where usage is unlikely to go down and neither are frontier AI costs.
I believe we'll see a shift to more organizations building their own harnesses with model routing logic to get central control over who can use what AI and for what.
A marketer doesn't need to default to Opus 5.5 to upload a blog article with MCP, which could be done by a model 10% of the price.
I believe that we're in a scenario where usage is unlikely to go down and neither are frontier AI costs.
I believe we'll see a shift to more organizations building their own harnesses with model routing logic to get central control over who can use what AI and for what.
A marketer doesn't need to default to Opus 5.5 to upload a blog article with MCP, which could be done by a model 10% of the price.