My AI System Logged 35,669 LLM Calls. It Still Couldn’t Tell Me What They Cost.

<p>For the last few years the tech industry has quietly assumed this<br /><br /> AI is powerful almost free and it will eventually pay for itself </p> <p>Turns out that story is

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<p>I was sitting in a demo from the head of architecture when the problem clicked into focus. He was showing how his team had moved everything out of Confluence and into Markdown

<p>OpenAIの請求書には、先月4,237ドル使ったと書かれています。しかし、そのうち3,100ドルは暴走した要約エンドポイントから、700ドルは月に50ドル支払っている顧客から、437ドルは誰も使わない機能から発生したことは書かれていません。ダッシュボードでは、価格設定、キャパシティ、ロードマップの判断に必要な情報が隠れています。</p> <p><a

<p>The organization runs the program. Reserved instances purchased, rightsizing applied, maybe a workload consolidation push across three regions. Spend drops 18%. Leadership

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

<p>Last year I was hiring my third virtual assistant. The first one was great but moved on. The second ghosted after two weeks. By the time I was writing yet another job post on

<p>The price page hasn't moved. Five dollars per million input. Twenty-five per million output. Identical to Opus 4.6.</p> <p>Run the same Claude Code call on both, though, and