Qodo caps engineers at $10,000 in tokens monthly to track AI ROI

Qodo CEO Itamar Friedman said engineers get up to $10,000 worth of tokens per month to keep AI spending visible. The startup's AI infrastructure costs are growing roughly 5x year over year, while pull requests double every couple of months and bugs decline.

• The $10,000 monthly token cap is meant for visibility and efficiency, not restriction
• AI infrastructure spend is growing roughly 5x year over year
• Qodo sees pull requests double every couple of months while bugs fall
• Friedman proposes an ROI formula: AI benefits divided by AI costs