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The era of token maxing is over. When Claude Fable 5 launched last week at $10/$50 per million tokens - double the price of Opus 4.8 - it was a clear reminder that the most powerful model isn't always the right model. Not every task needs the Ferrari. The fastest way to burn your Al budget is sending every request to the most expensive model by default. The real question for the next phase of Al cost management isn't "can this model do the job?" — it's "is it the right model for the job?".

Harness has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevSecOps Platforms — for the third year in a row. Here's what stands out: almost every company in the Leaders quadrant is missing a piece. Some have Dev, some have Ops, but not the security. Harness is the one platform that brings Dev, Sec, AND Ops together — with AI built in. AI is changing how software gets built: more code, more automation, more agents — but also more complexity. Teams need delivery, security, testing, reliability, and cost in one place. That's what we're building every day.

Will AI replace engineers? Hugo Charré from Cursor argues the opposite. In this clip from the upcoming summit, Hugo Charré (Cursor) explains why the number of engineers is going to grow as we scale agentic systems — and why AI raises the bar for who's on the team.

Your entire AI stack ran on a model that disappeared in three days. The US government issued a directive suspending all access — a few hours' notice, no deprecation window, no roadmap. Launched Tuesday. Gone by Friday. And every enterprise that had built workflows on top of it just found out what the real risk was: not the model itself, but the absence of a governance layer underneath it.

Your best engineer spent 500,000 tokens last week. Nothing shipped. There's a name for it now: tokenmaxxing. Failed prompts, dead PRs, code that never reaches production — it looks like productivity, but it isn't. Most engineering leaders can't tell you what percentage of AI-generated code actually ships, or where the budget went. You should be able to say "that bug cost me $2,700 in tokens to fix.".

Bain says AI cost savings aren't arriving. But the value isn't missing, it's invisible. Most engineering teams can see token spend. They can see AI usage. What they can't see is whether any of it shipped, and whether it moved the needle on delivery. That's the measurement gap. And until it closes, AI ROI will keep looking worse than it should.

Artifact governance should not depend on manual checks. But for many teams, container images, software packages, and open-source dependencies are imported into registries from multiple internal and external sources. Without automated guardrails, vulnerable images, untrusted packages, end-of-life dependencies, or non-compliant artifacts can reach developers and delivery pipelines.

Managing MongoDB database changes shouldn't require manually creating and maintaining changelogs. In this video, you'll learn how Harness Database DevOps automatically generates MongoDB changelogs, helping teams capture existing database changes and bring them into version control for reliable CI/CD workflows. As a modern **database schema migration tool**, Harness Database DevOps helps teams automate database change management across relational and NoSQL databases, reducing manual effort and deployment risk.

What used to be $50 a month is now $3,000 — overnight. Microsoft just moved GitHub Copilot to token-based billing, and devs are split between calling it a "rug pull" and admitting someone always had to pay the bill. Here's the part that should worry every engineering leader: most can't tell you what percentage of their AI-generated code actually ships, or where the tokens went. When the meter is running on every prompt, "it feels productive" isn't good enough — you need to know that bug cost you $2,700 in tokens to fix.

AI spend doubled to $297B in two years — and most companies can't tell you what any of it shipped. Token spend is disconnected from outcomes on the dev side. Agents in production? The invoice is the only signal. Harness Cloud & AI Cost Management (CACM) gives teams unit economics at the inference level, cross-provider visibility across OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, and Vertex AI, and request-level attribution to the agent, session, or workflow that triggered the spend.