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Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

By Erik Peterson · InfoQ · Monday, 12 October 2026 at 11:00 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer promotions, and why fully autonomous AI will write, deploy, and govern code by 2028.

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Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

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