Ep 813: AI Cost Control 101: Why Your Chatbot Bill Is Becoming a Board-Level Problem (Start Here Series Vol 31)

SPEAKER_00: For the past three and a half years, AI has almost felt too cheap to be real, especially for power users during early 2026. But that version of AI is ending and it's gonna hit even harder later today.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of right, know, models, including: I mean, you pay a monthly fee, you open Chat GPT or Claude or Codex, Gemini Copilot, whatever, and then you have agents run for hours completing your actual work with your contacts.

1. 01I mean, you pay a monthly fee, you open Chat GPT or Claude or Codex, Gemini Copilot, whatever, and then you have agents run for hours completing your actual work with your contacts
2. 02So with the explosion of agentic models that can now work for hours with expert level artifacts, the question is no longer how do we get everyone in our company using AI?
3. 03And the wild west days of using whatever model you wanted around the clock and just paying a$20 or$200 a month subscription fee and nothing more, those days are pretty much gone