The AI Conundrum: When Innovation Becomes a Costly Commodity Microsoft's recent decision to cancel its direct Claude Code licenses and shift engineers towards using GitHub Copilot CLI is part of a broader trend in the tech industry.
Companies are beginning to realize that the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been oversold, and its true cost is proving to be a significant hurdle.
One factor contributing to this reversal is the economics of token based pricing systems.