Frank Contrepois
Your dashboard is lying (but not the way you think)
Cloud vendors mark cost data as provisional until month-end billing is finalised, yet most FinOps dashboards ignore that and display mid-month numbers as truth. In FinOps, usage is daily, but finance is monthly. Real control comes from governance and behaviour, not hourly refreshes.
Why shift left makes me uncomfortable
Shift-left is framed as empowerment: show engineers the cost impact and let them decide. But when economic responsibility moves down without strategic intent, budget ownership and reward moving with it, ownership can quietly become exposure.
Stop being supportive AI, please
AI feels helpful when you are thinking—but that is the trap.
News - cracker method for AI cost optimisation?
News - Two days in February. Same AI technology. Palantir posts +70% revenue growth. The software sector watches $285 billion evaporate.
IT value theory
What if the value of IT isn’t cost, savings, or efficiency, but belief? This essay proposes a way to read IT value through three layers: precision, interpretation, and commitment. Not as theory, but as how organisations already decide what future they fund.