Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

kept by eddie may 26

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses for thousands of employees due to unsustainable token costs, signaling that enterprise AI coding's unit economics don't work at current prices.

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Running local LLMs on Apple Silicon costs about 3x more per million tokens than using OpenRouter, and also runs slower.
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
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