The days of pointing an AI agent at a backlog and letting it burn through compute without much oversight may be coming to an end. Cognition is introducing hierarchical budgets for Devin so enterprises can manage AI coding agent spending across departments, projects, and individual engineers. Administrators can assign budgets to different teams, track how much each one spends, and approve more capacity based on engineering efficiency. There’s a catch for developers, though; if a budget runs out while Devin is working on a task, the session stops. If a budget runs out while Devin is working on...

Source: The New Stack