Why it matters
AI Engineer session on The Billable Hour is Dead; Long Live the Billable Hour, presented by Kevin Madura + Mo Bhasin, Alix Partners. It adds practical context for how teams are building and operating AI systems in production.
My takeaway: The Billable Hour is Dead; Long Live the Billable Hour — Kevin Madura + Mo Bhasin, Alix Partners is an enterprise-adoption signal. The practical read is to watch how deployment scale, data boundaries, operational ownership, and platform controls change as AI moves out of experiments.