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The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?

Engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies are implementing top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, signaling a new trend of questioning ROI on AI investments. The move comes amid reports of Cursor's AI coding stats and GCP suspending a $2M/month customer without warning.

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Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more

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New trend? ROI questions for AI investments. I talked with engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies, where spending on AI agents is being dampened via per-engineer mont…

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