LLM economics

Enterprise Agentic AI: The Economic Case Against Closed-Model Lock-In

Enterprise Agentic AI: The Economic Case Against Closed-Model Lock-In

Airrived’s Anurag Gurtu argues that most tools marketed as agentic AI are sophisticated prompt wrappers, that API dependency builds competitors’ moats rather than your own, and that kill-switch proposals miss the actual architectural governance problem. ECI Research analysis examines what it means for enterprise AI strategy and budget allocation.

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AI Token Cost Governance: What a $1,000 Mistake Teaches Enterprises

AI Token Cost Governance: What a $1,000 Mistake Teaches Enterprises

Maxio CEO Branden Jenkins accidentally exceeded his AI token budget by $1,000 in a single weekend, then turned the mistake into a team training program. The episode reveals a broader enterprise gap in AI cost governance that ITDMs and developers can no longer afford to ignore.

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