AI spending caps are training wheels for teams that shouldn’t need them. They create friction. They break flows. They protect pennies while slowing the thing that makes dollars.
Outstanding framing of the throughput vs cost tradeoff. The AWS comparison is spot on. I ran infra at a mid-stage company and we had this exact fight about API rate limits vs reliability. What's wild is teams dunno they're optimizing for the wrong metric until they see competitors shipping 2x faster. The hard cap breaking mid-refactor scenario is brutal and probly happens way more than orgs admit.
Outstanding framing of the throughput vs cost tradeoff. The AWS comparison is spot on. I ran infra at a mid-stage company and we had this exact fight about API rate limits vs reliability. What's wild is teams dunno they're optimizing for the wrong metric until they see competitors shipping 2x faster. The hard cap breaking mid-refactor scenario is brutal and probly happens way more than orgs admit.
Spot on! Glad this resonated!