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EXECUTIVE BRIEF: Agentic AI TCO - Separating Signal from Hype. The real cost of AI assisted software and firmware development. Executive Summary Agentic AI in software development is generating genuine productivity gains — and a wave of canceled projects, inflated cost structures, and governance gaps that vendors have little incentive to advertise. This briefing cuts through both the skepticism and the hype to provide a pragmatic ROI framework for engineering leaders evalu

EXECUTIVE BRIEF: In April 2026 Uber deployed AI experienced unanticipated token usage costs with AI generated code. When Uber rolled out an autonomous AI coding assistant to boost developer productivity, engineers embraced it heavily, using it to write up to 70% of new code. However, because the agent ran persistent, multi-turn reasoning loops, expensive usage fees accumulated rapidly. By April 2026, Uber had exhausted its entire annual AI budget. The hidden realization was