Engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies are actively questioning ROI on AI agent spending, with budgets being constrained through per-engineer monthly caps.
The Pragmatic Engineer's Pulse series surfaces this through direct conversations with engineering leadership, not analyst reports. The mechanism matters: per-engineer caps are a structural brake, not a one-time budget cut.
The full piece covers the specifics of how these limits are being set and what it signals for AI tooling vendors who built their growth models on frictionless enterprise adoption.
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