Comment by jkwang

The $1500 number is less interesting than the fact that they hit a ceiling at all. Most engineering teams I've talked to have no idea what their AI spend is per developer because it's buried in a consolidated cloud bill. Having a hard cap forces two useful conversations: what workflows actually justify API calls vs local inference, and whether the output is being measured against any real productivity metric. Without that feedback loop it's just a race to see who can burn tokens fastest.