Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The question that won't leave me alone is not about capability. It's about cost.

Not financial cost. I know what Claude costs per month. I know what my team costs per quarter. Those numbers I can read. The cost I cannot read is the one Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent his entire life trying to make visible: the cost of receiving a gift without letting it change you.

Bonhoeffer drew a line between cheap grace and costly grace. Cheap grace is the gift that demands nothing of the recipient. It passes through without resistance, without transformation, without the friction of honest reckoning. Costly grace is the gift that asks for everything — your attention, your honesty, your willingness to be uncomfortable with what you see when you look at the