Those special cases should be handled with overages and special approvals. Blanket approvals of massive spending doesn't make financial sense.
- freely experiment and understand the limitations of AI
- create things outside of what they are officially expected to
I’m not advocating for people who burn tokens for the sake of it. But I do think a single engineer has more potential for impact today than ever before and a high budget unlocks that.
It also isn’t _that_ much more when a fully loaded mid-level engineer is costing you $300k+