FinOps for AI: per-commit cost attribution

Interesting, but are we there yet?

Where I live and work people get 'attribution' from the managerial staff by showing more spending on anthropic graph. Our founder had a hard time convincing people just to use claude or copilot. He fought for 6 months. The adoption is only happening. He measures it by looking at how much did each team member spent in claude console. I asked my other colleague at a different company. He said that one of the developers got recognized by the managers, because he spent 200USD last month on claude tokens - that's more than anybody else in the team.

I have to admit that in my company for some of the people it is really disappointing - the technology itself. We start seeing that what is being promissed by the marketing is not delivered. I think we may get to the point when the AI bubble starts popping, before the technology is widely adopted.

Having said that, from my subjective point of view, I wouldn't incorporate this cost breakdown technique in my company for a very simple reason: it's not worth it. It has a negative ROI at this point for us. But maybe it's different in other companies.