The Developer Who Burned $1,500 in One Day on Cursor Without Knowing It

We use Cursor at our company on a shared Enterprise account. One budget, one blanket that every developer pulls in their direction. Staying within budget is a challenge every engineering team is dealing with right now. What Happened Engineering costs used to be two things: headcount and cloud infrastructure. You had tools for both. Then AI coding assistants showed up, and suddenly there's a third cost center that nobody has good tooling for. There's also model inflation -- it's genuinely hard to tell which model is better, cheaper, or expensive. The names don't help.