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by jjk166 302 days ago
> Isn’t tracking AI usage too difficult?

> Tracking was a challenge for human developers too, yet companies managed it when capitalization mattered.

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> Historically, that has been difficult because the cost of developer tools could not be allocated with this level of precision.

> The blind spot is that most accounting teams have not considered developer tool costs in this way because, in the past, they were used across all phases of a project and could not be allocated directly.

> The current habit of treating all AI agent costs as overhead is a carryover from a time when tool usage could not be measured and allocated. That era is over.