Ride the bike

Anthropic's newest model costs exactly double its predecessor, one GitHub Copilot bill jumped from a flat $50 a month towards $3,000, and suddenly the invoice, not the model, is the story. David argues most organisations manage these bills exactly backwards: they celebrate the biggest token burners or cap everyone, and both approaches manage the number instead of the judgement. His maths says the gap between the cheapest sensible model and the dearest buys about 40 seconds of a manager's day. What he would do instead: a floor of five prompts a day for everyone, then a delegation budget run on trust, because a price with a budget behind it sharpens judgement while a price with a cap replaces it. Eddy Merckx supplies the moral: ride the bike. Plus three things worth knowing, three things to try, and what readers said about graduate hiring.