Source: SiliconANGLE
FinOps teams built their entire discipline around optimizing discrete cloud resources—compute, storage, bandwidth—but agentic AI systems that run autonomous workflows with unpredictable resource chains break that model. A single agent prompt can now cascade into dozens of API calls, model invocations, and data retrievals before returning an answer, making traditional per-token cost accounting useless and forcing teams to measure and control costs at the workflow and outcome level instead. Organizations that don't rebuild their cost governance around agent behavior risk losing visibility into spend and allowing runaway autonomous systems to consume budgets unchecked.