What developers actually do when nobody constrains themAt Kilo, we sit in an unusual position. Most usage data in this industry comes from the labs themselves, and a lab can only see its own traffic. Another third is paid-versus-paid, engineers checking whether the expensive model actually earns its price on their specific work. The most-used model on the platform in a given week was a free model most engineering leaders have never evaluated. The FinOps Foundation found 98% of practitioners now actively manage AI spend, up from 63% a year earlier, so the visibility layer is table stakes.