Cloud Costs Are Ignored: How AI Cost Agents Help Engineers
Harness, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Engineers ignore cloud costs because feedback loops are broken, not because they do not care.
Harness argues that engineers ignore cloud costs because of broken feedback loops rather than indifference: cost information arrives weeks later, aggregated at a level that cannot be traced to a specific change, and by then the context is gone.
The proposed remedy is AI cost agents that surface the cost implication of a change at the point the change is made.
The diagnosis is sound and matches most organizations' experience of FinOps programmes that produce reports nobody acts on because they cannot identify what to act on.