3 AImigo S1E14: A Token Budget / How Much Does AI in Development Cost? (Series #AI4SDLC)

On Friday, November 13, at 12:00 Moscow time, we’ll talk live in a new episode of 3 AImigo about planning an AI budget for software development.

Why are tokens getting cheaper while the bill goes up? The agent rereads context, runs tools, and tries again when the first attempt fails. The price of a million tokens tells you little about what it cost the team to take a task through to an accepted change.

We’ll discuss how to calculate the cost of that change, when a subscription, credits, or pay-as-you-go API access is a better deal, and how to set limits so the team can keep working as it approaches its budget.

How do you plan your team’s AI spending today? Tell us in the comments.

P.S. This 3 AImigo episode picks up the theme of “AI Sped Up Development: How Do We Know It’s True?”, the talk I’ll give today at AI Dev Live 2026, a conference with a great lineup. The conference has already started, but you can still join for free and catch my talk at 18:50. Details and the full program are on the event site. See you live (maybe even twice, today and Friday).

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