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Tokentaxxing: Why CFOs Need to Take Back AI Spend From Engineering
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Microsoft is canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses six months after rolling them out. Meta took down its internal "Claudeonomics" leaderboard within 48 hours of it leaking to the press. The official story in each case is that AI adoption exceeded forecasts. The real story is that companies built incentive systems that reward token consumption, and got exactly what they asked for.
