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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

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FinOps for the AI Era Series #6: Internal AI Usage Is the New Shadow IT

Internal AI Usage Is the New Shadow IT Internal AI adoption rarely waits for a strategy deck. Employees find tools. Teams run experiments. Managers buy subscriptions. Developers install copilots. Sales reps use research agents. Recruiters summarize resumes. Executives use premium chat tools. Meeting bots join calls. Analysts paste data into
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FinOps for the AI Era Series #5: The AI Spend Map

The AI Spend Map The first serious AI FinOps artifact should not be a policy. It should be a spend map. Policies written before the company understands its AI usage tend to be either too vague or too restrictive. They say things like “use approved tools,” “protect confidential data,” “avoid
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FinOps for the AI Era Series #4: Why AI Breaks the Old FinOps Model

Why AI Breaks the Old FinOps Model AI does not fit neatly inside the old infrastructure cost box. That is the first reason AI FinOps becomes its own discipline. Cloud FinOps could usually start with the cloud bill. The spend lived in AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Datadog, or another infrastructure-
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FinOps for the AI Era Series #3: The Cloud FinOps Operating System

The Cloud FinOps Operating System Cloud FinOps works when it becomes an operating system, not a dashboard. A dashboard can show that spend increased. An operating system explains why, who owns it, whether it matters, what decision is needed, and when the next review happens. That distinction is the difference
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FinOps for the AI Era Series #2: Why FinOps Was Never Just Cost Cutting

Why FinOps Was Never Just Cost Cutting The easiest way to misunderstand FinOps is to reduce it to cost cutting. That mistake is understandable. FinOps often becomes visible when the bill gets uncomfortable. A CFO asks why cloud spend is growing faster than revenue. An engineering leader discovers forgotten environments.
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FinOps for the AI Era Series #1: What Cloud FinOps Already Taught Us

What Cloud FinOps Already Taught Us Cloud FinOps was one of the first serious attempts to manage elastic technical spend without turning the company into a permission queue. That is worth remembering now because AI spend is entering the same messy phase cloud spend entered years ago. The usage is
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Daily Digest - 2026-05-07

1. The Memory Wall: Where AI's Second-Order Effects Hit Silicon — anand iyer * Why read: Understand the structural hardware bottlenecks limiting AI scaling and where future silicon innovation must focus. * Summary: In modern AI workloads, roughly 60% of energy is consumed simply moving data between memory and compute,
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How Companies Actually Behave Series #10: The Behavioral Operating System Audit

A company is not only a strategy, structure, cadence, or culture deck. It is a behavioral operating system. That system includes principles, decision rules, incentives, standards, tolerance, rituals, authority, information flow, hiring, onboarding, subcultures, pressure behavior, and accumulated debt. It determines what people do when the answer is unclear and
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