What's the quote?

> Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

We're currently used to SAAS billing models that are either all-you-can-eat subscriptions, or metered around some easy-to-understand metric like # of users, or otherwise number of gigabytes consumed.

The SAAS economics work that way because the compute consumed is typically too cheap to meter. Some customer uses a little more than average, some customer uses a little less than average; it's not worth the time to even it out to the penny.

AI is so darn CPU (GPU? AIPU?) intense that will only be profitable, and affordable, if it can be metered like electricity and billed with a small margin.

In SAAS, we're not used to metering billing computations this way.