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AI Cost Rationing
Token rationing, credentialing theater, and the enablement-vs-cost misdiagnosis. Published on LinkedIn with a 2-part audio edition.
Most organizations that claim to be "rolling out AI" are rationing it — restricting model access, limiting tool permissions, or gating usage behind training requirements that have more to do with liability than learning. The AI Cost Rationing series examines what that rationing actually costs, and why the enablement-vs-cost framing is the wrong frame entirely.
The series covers three threads: token rationing (what happens when you restrict the compute budget for AI work), credentialing theater (training programs designed to check a box rather than build capability), and the misdiagnosis of cost as the central variable when adoption is the actual problem.
The 2-part audio edition was produced as a companion to the written series — a format test as much as a publishing decision.
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