When Tokens Became the Product

For a while, AI felt like software. Buy a seat, hand people access, and assume the costs were somebody else's problem. Now the meter is visible, the bills are real, and a lot of confident AI strategy suddenly looks much less confident.Tokens replace seatsSticker shock and the token shortageWhen metrics distort behaviorWhat successful enterprise use looks likeThe infrastructure power shiftPolicy starts chasing token economicsWhat actually changedThis podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm