And here comes the reining in of spending. If companies are anywhere like I'm seeing:

1 - Company mandate, start using AI

2 - You're afraid? Here's a mandate!

3 - (Devs and others discover Claude Code features where the coolest burn mad tokens)

4 - Um, yeah we're going to have to take a look at the spend here

5 _

What's 5?

We know steps 3 and 4 will cycle a bit more, and we know it's going to cost more - these were startup teaser costs.