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Microsoft's Frontier Firm post buries the binding constraint on enterprise AI value capture in plain sight. Only 13 percent of workers say they are rewarded for reinventing work with AI even when results do not materialize. Until that compensation-design number moves, Cowork, the plugin ecosystem, and the four-pattern taxonomy are downstream of the actual problem.
Anthropic doubling its own published Claude Code cost estimate while GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing in the same week is the public marker of subsidy-end, not a verdict on AI coding value. Futurism reads the marker as failure; operators should read it as pricing normalization, with the residual mispricing now sitting in equity narratives that still model lab revenue as if flat-rate inference subsidy persists. The mainstream-press leak is itself the signal: the bear thesis is on a four-to-eight week lag from primary sources, and what arrives at Futurism is what gets repriced next.
