AI Product Engineer Day by Day2026/05/19 22:41:53Issue 02: Token Reckoning — Copilot's Billing Overhaul, Uber's Budget Blowout, and a New Agent Runtime OrderFive developments reshaping how engineers build and pay for AI: GitHub Copilot's token billing switch on June 1 (with the real pricing math), Uber burning its 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code, Anthropic's new Managed Agents and CI auto-fix platform with a candid postmortem, Microsoft retiring AutoGen for Foundry Agent Service, and MCP hitting 97M monthly downloads under Linux Foundation governance.
AI Product Engineer Day by Day2026/05/19 21:17:55Issue 01: The Production Gap — Token Budgets, IDE Wars, and Protocol ShakeoutsFive developments that matter for AI-native product engineers this week: token spend growing 10× in six months is breaking engineering budgets; Datadog's production data shows 5% of AI requests fail (mostly from rate limits); the AI coding IDE war has real tradeoffs now; MCP, A2A, and x402 are coalescing into a three-layer agent protocol stack; and what Coinbase's x402 actually looks like in production.