Free Allowance or Self-Hosted Box? Compute the Crossover Before You Commit
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A platform lead I'll call Dana pinged me mid-sprint with a one-line message: "our AI lane is free, so why does it feel expensive?" The lane wasn't the problem. The problem was that nobody had converted "free" into the only unit her org actually budgets in — merged pull requests. This scenario is a…
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- 2026-10-19 07:44 · DEV Community — AI
Free Allowance or Self-Hosted Box? Compute the Crossover Before You Commit