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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 26, 2026 • Session details

public void saveMoney(AI): The Developer's Guide to Unit Economics

Hrushikesh Pokala

Are AI coding assistants secretly destroying your cloud budget? Learn how to shift FinOps left and block financially defective code directly at the pull request.

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