AI validation pipelines cost a team $900K; here's how to curb it
A 50‑engineer team’s AI‑driven CI pipeline blew $900K in a year because retries forced full‑context reads at peak pricing. The piece proposes Cost‑per‑Shipped‑Change (CPSC) to surface hidden spend and shows that high‑performers cut CI costs 31% by reducing feature‑branch cycles. Moving validation into the agent’s warm cache is the key fix.