AI spend per employee: why the falling metric misleads
Enterprise AI spending per employee dropped at top firms in August 2026. Does that mean companies got efficient, or that adoption quietly stalled? The position here is that the ratio itself is the problem: token prices at the frontier labs have fallen by more than half since early 2025, and headcount grew at the heaviest adopters, so the per head figure falls even when absolute budgets rise. You get a way to tell a real efficiency gain from a dying pilot, using weekly active users divided by paid licenses per team, the Google AI 30 percent shipping claim checked against O'Reilly Radar survey…
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