AI Won’t Replace You. But the Engineer with a $100k Token Budget Will.
AI is shifting from a chat tool to enterprise infrastructure, forcing a new kind of resource: token budgets. Top engineers may consume $100k annually in AI tokens, but the real moat isn’t access to models—it’s governance. The faster you execute wrong, the bigger the waste. Companies that redesign budgets, permissions, and roles around AI will outperform those that just buy more chatbots.