Logistics rebuild logged ~$10 in AI spend per merged PR across 90 days
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-20
A practitioner shared real AI spend data from a logistics rebuild: two engineers spent $200/month each on AI tools, merging 122 PRs in 90 days — roughly $10 of AI cost per merged PR. The author argues spend only matters when tied to finished work, not seats or token counts. Other data points: a voice agent at a US healthtech company costs 7.1 cents per connected patient-billing call (including telephony and inference), and a billing-analysis agent in the client's own cloud runs $250/month in infrastructure. Each metric measures different things, so scoping matters.
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