"If you’re not able to draw a direct line to [how many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that tradeoff [on AI spend] becomes harder to justify because AI is not free."
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I talked with engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies, where spending on AI agents is being dampened via per-engineer monthly budgets, or smart model routing efforts to cut costs
