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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.".