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Token Blindness: What the Shift to Usage-Based AI Billing Exposes

GitHub retired flat-rate Copilot credits in June 2026, and the first invoices under usage-based billing caught some agentic users off guard. The episode points to a broader problem: most organizations still don’t know what their AI actually costs to run.