What Does AI Cost? No One Knows.

Why is it so difficult to get the engineering team to tell what AI tools cost?

Well, it’s not really about cantankerous engineers. (Most of the time, it’s not.)

It’s really about how different groups in an organization manage their work and the KPIs they set for themselves. DevOps teams are sensitive to encroachment. FinOps teams face criticism for their insistence on controlling costs for work that an engineering team deems essential.

DevOps and FinOps groups can collaborate, and they often do so in organizations that have structured…