The latest articles on DEV Community by Umang Sehgal (@productcurious). https://dev.to/productcurious https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3894877%2F052379b1-8b09-42c7-8882-9d654b637b15.jpg https://dev.to/productcurious en Umang Sehgal Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:16:17 +0000 https://dev.to/productcurious/the-token-math-behind-ubers-ai-budget-blowup-7bh https://dev.to/productcurious/the-token-math-behind-ubers-ai-budget-blowup-7bh <p>Uber's CTO announced last week that his team had burned through the company's entire annual AI budget in four months. 5,000 engineers got Claude Code in December. By March, 84% had drifted from single-shot queries to agentic workflows. The tool didn't change. The per-user cost did. </p> <p>This is where most enterprise AI budgets are breaking right now. Workflow complexity drifts upward. The bill scales with that. Nobody re-forecasts.</p> <p>I wrote up the math: token benchmarks by workflow type, the 40-60% of hidden infrastructure costs most managers miss,prompt caching as a 50-90% cost lever, and the forecasting formula to run before the next deployment.</p> <p>Full piece on productcurious: <a href="https://www.productcurious.com/p/a-managers-guide-to-reducing-ai-costs" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.productcurious.com/p/a-managers-guide-to-reducing-ai-costs</a></p> ai finops productivity software Umang Sehgal Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:10:44 +0000 https://dev.to/productcurious/quick-thoughts-on-how-uber-couldve-planned-ai-spend-better-2pb4 https://dev.to/productcurious/quick-thoughts-on-how-uber-couldve-planned-ai-spend-better-2pb4 <div class="crayons-card c-embed text-styles text-styles--secondary"> <div class="c-embed__content"> <div class="c-embed__cover"> <a href="https://www.productcurious.com/p/a-managers-guide-to-reducing-ai-costs" class="c-link align-middle" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img alt="" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21SM4_%21%2Cw_1200%2Ch_675%2Cc_fill%2Cf_jpg%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Cg_auto%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F3fd87088-6b09-47a9-b873-cacd3acc2e43_1105x946.png" height="489" class="m-0" width="800"> </a> </div> <div class="c-embed__body"> <h2 class="fs-xl lh-tight"> <a href="https://www.productcurious.com/p/a-managers-guide-to-reducing-ai-costs" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link"> A Manager's Guide to Reducing AI Costs Without Reducing Headcount </a> </h2> <p class="truncate-at-3"> The budgeting math Uber didn't do and why you should this quarter. </p> <div class="color-secondary fs-s flex items-center"> <img alt="favicon" class="c-embed__favicon m-0 mr-2 radius-0" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Ficons%2Fsubstack%2Ffavicon.ico" width="32" height="32"> productcurious.com </div> </div> </div> </div>