Coinbase halved its AI spend while token usage kept growing exponentially. CEO Brian Armstrong posted the breakdown on X this week — five concrete levers, no access caps, and 91% of engineers never hit the old usage limits. That last point matters.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/thegatewayguy/coinbase-cut-its-ai-spend-in-half-without-throttling-engineers-heres-the-playbook-1el4)