One-size-fits-all blanket usage caps on AI spend don’t make sense. On the other hand, yolo tokenmaxxing doesn’t scale either. We’ve come up with a better approach to cost control centered around efficiency. More efficient employees can have limits raised automatically (with a final upper bound still), while other spend requests go thru an admin review process.

Cognition@cognition5d ago

What if your AI budget went to the engineers who use it best? Blanket usage caps are a hiring freeze in disguise. Introducing efficiency-based auto-approvals for your most productive engineers, plus Devin Coach to help everyone get there. https://devin.ai/blog/efficiency-based-cost-controls