The Billable Hour Problem
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16 mins
Every other industry rewards productivity. The billable hour punishes it. AI is forcing that contradiction into the open.
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Kirkland's $500 Million AI Bet
Every headline called Kirkland's $500M commitment an AI bet. The signals in the announcement — no named model, full exclusivity, value-based pricing — point to something different: an infrastructure play that happens to run AI.