The price per token has been falling for months. The bill keeps rising anyway. In episode 9 of Prompt & Proper, Steffen Ochsenreither from Swiss Post and I compare what we see in our organisations, and it is the same pattern on both sides: the more we develop agentically, the faster consumption grows, and it grows faster than model prices drop. The episode is in German, and this post captures the core of the conversation.
A dark factory is a factory where you can switch the lights off, because nobody is standing on the floor anymore. In China, phones are already built that way. In episode 8 of Prompt & Proper, Steffen Ochsenreither from Swiss Post and I take that concept and put it on software development: goal in, finished software out, no human in between. The episode is in German, and this post captures the core of the conversation.
On LinkedIn I keep reading that agentic coding makes teams 10x more productive. It is good marketing. It has little to do with what we measure in real projects.
In episode 2 of Prompt & Proper, Steffen Ochsenreither from Swiss Post and I take that number apart. And we talk about the other side of the same coin, the one that gets far less airtime: what tokens actually cost, and how solid the economics behind them really are. The episode is in German, and this post captures the core of the conversation.
Welcome back to The Cybernetic CxO, a monthly newsletter for CTOs, CIOs, and digital transformation leaders navigating the AI era.
April delivered the most-read post in this newsletter’s history: a Swiss medical professional vibe-coded a patient management system, put it on the open internet, and an engineer needed thirty minutes to get full read and write access to every patient record. The post travelled because the story is concrete, the legal damage is real, and the lesson applies to almost every organization I talk to.
Welcome to the first edition of The Cybernetic CxO. A monthly newsletter for CTOs, CIOs, and digital transformation leaders navigating the AI era.
Each month, I’ll share patterns I’m seeing in the field: what’s working, what’s breaking, and what it means for how we build and run technology organizations. Expect honest takes, practical frameworks, and one thing you can do this week.
