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AI Dependency, Margin Pressure, and the Risk Nobody Mapped

Most AI teams are watching hallucinations while vendor lock-in slips into the P&L unnoticed.

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This episode looks at how single-provider LLM dependencies create real financial exposure through outages, quota shifts, and pricing changes.

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We cover why traditional cloud governance misses AI lock-in, where the real concentration risk sits, and what a practical response looks like: workload tiering, dependency registers, routing layers, and model-agnostic evaluation.

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If AI now sits inside revenue-critical workflows, this is not just…

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