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AI coding costs tripled at our startup: here's how we fixed it
A small software company saw its AI coding bill triple as engineers adopted Claude Code and Codex. The waste came from invisible usage patterns like one developer consuming five times the tokens and expensive models used for trivial tasks. Prompt caching and model right-sizing cut costs significantly.
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The story underscores a growing blind spot in AI tool adoption: without usage visibility and governance, productivity gains can silently erode budgets.
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