I’ve seen it firsthand at work, where my developers are shy about spending even a single digit number of dollars on Claude Code, even when it saves them 10 times that much in opportunity cost. It’s got to be some kind of psychological loss aversion effect.

Years of being hammered to reduce reduce reduce in monthly cloud spend certainly makes us cost-averse. In reality you are completely correct wrt the real value, and leadership will always see this (hopefully), but I still don’t want to hear my name spoken in our monthly budget review.