July 30, 2026

Atlassian puts its engineers on an AI budget as the cost of ‘tokenmaxxing’ bites

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The software maker cut thousands of jobs in the name of AI. Now it is handing the engineers who remain capped ‘AI wallets,’ a sign the industry’s token spending has become a line item to manage. Atlassian has started giving its engineers a fixed mont...