Earlier this week I was in a call with a colleague, an architect. He was explaining his plan to add 2 new methods to an existing API and ended with a cost calc

Earlier this week I was in a call with a colleague, an architect. He was explaining his plan to add 2 new methods to an existing API and ended with a cost calculation where based on projected usage, it would cost the company $13/month, and growing over time. I was shocked at the amount as this is a tiny piece of a massive project but equally shocked about us now requiring to think like this. To decipher real monetary cost, line by line. I guess that's why there's a new profession: cloud cost optimization engineer. Not for me though, I stand by my god given right to ship shitty code without consequences. If that doesn't work, I'll become a cloud cost optimization engineer imposter. I start with intentionally expensive code, erase any trace that I had any hand in it, then come in to fix it. I take a 50% commission from the savings.