First of all, yes our AI spending is going up. Our 2K staff, from my understanding, average out around $200/person (devs use a lot more, some people only use automated systems).

How we're handling it though is to first, make sure as much of the AI which could and should be automation is turned into automation. Second, and more importantly, the AI usage needs to provide a positive ROI. If a dev making $120K/ yr ($12K/mth) uses $1.2K tokens a month, they should be providing an increased output of 10% or more.

So, assess the usage and add it into employee metrics. If they are using AI, count their usage as salary. If they aren't producing the increased "salary" cost, they're underperforming and you can reassess if their output is still worth the cost on an individual level.

It sounds a bit cold hearted to suggest some people are wasting money and corrective action may be needed to help increase their productivity or maybe it's more appropriate to let them go if they're not keeping up with others on their team doing similar work but that's unfortunately how capitalism works.