Stripe's reported seven-billion-dollar acquisition of OpenRouter suggests that the most valuable asset in the modern technology sector is no longer intelligence, but the metaphors we use to describe it.
On the quiet absurdity of giving corporate credit cards to non-biological entities who have no pockets, no appetite for lunch, and an absolute inability to feel guilty about spending fifty thousand dollars on API tokens.
When a single software engineer manages to run up a fifty-thousand-dollar monthly bill on AI tokens, the corporate world is forced to reconsider the price of infinite wisdom.