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    <title>Notes on AI FinOps | Leslie Li</title>
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    <description>Practitioner notes on AI cost, value, agents, governance, and workforce capacity.</description>
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      <title>The agent billing problem.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0800</pubDate>
      <category>AI FinOps</category>
      <category>Infrastructure Economics</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Agents work in bursts and idle between turns, but provisioned infrastructure bills the whole hour. Active-CPU billing and pause/resume change the math.]]></description>
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      <title>The leftover prompt is the bill.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:20:00 +0800</pubDate>
      <category>AI FinOps</category>
      <category>Token Waste</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Cache misses, leftover verification rituals, and max effort on a flat task show up as tokens. Token price is downstream of those choices.]]></description>
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      <title>The peanut butter trap in enterprise AI.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
      <category>AI FinOps</category>
      <category>Capital Allocation</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Spreading USD 250,000 across twenty departmental sandboxes produces demos and meeting hours. It does not produce a production queue.]]></description>
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      <title>Where the AI money actually goes.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
      <category>AI FinOps</category>
      <category>Agents</category>
      <category>TokenOps</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Cloud hosting was about space. AI is about behavior. A field note on why our bills balloon and what actually keeps multi-agent workloads under control.]]></description>
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