Engineers' day-to-day AI use outweighed product AI features in this company's spend audit
shensi · x · 2026-09-10
GilFeig shares a postmortem on cutting AI spend.
- The team assumed AI costs came from running AI features in their own product; in reality most of it came from engineers' day-to-day work.
- Auditing their AI bills showed internal usage beat the product-side number. The article details what they got wrong before figuring out how to truly reduce AI spend.
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