Ameya Kanitkar

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Key takeaways: Budget caps don’t work, and most engineers never hit them anyway. A one-hour cache (not five minutes) can cut AI-coding costs by 10-15%. Show engineers their spend and measure cost per unit of shipped work. AI coding is amazing, but costs have really surprised all the engineering leaders.

Ameya Kanitkar is the Co-founder and CTO of Larridin, a Bay Area-based startup building an organizational platform powered by AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the fastest-growing categories of enterprise technology spending. Gartner researchers predict that by 2028, the cost of AI coding tokens alone will surpass the salary of an average software developer.

Ameya Kanitkar is the Co-founder and CTO of Larridin, a Bay Area-based startup building an organizational platform powered by AI. ​For over a decade, engineering leaders have relied on frameworks like DORA and SPACE to understand developer productivity. These models brought rigor to a field that once relied heavily on intuition. They helped organizations improve deployment frequency, reduce failure rates and build stronger cultures.