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Engineering Post-Mortem June 2026 8 min read

We Burned $47K on AI in 90 Days. Here Is What Happened.

Token costs nobody expected. Code leaking to OpenAI servers. Agents timing out for 7 seconds. Three fires burning at once –” and they all had the same root cause.

$47K
Burned
7.5s
Latency
94%
Saved
AM
Alex Miller
Principal Architect
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