[evil-olive]

> I’d appreciate hearing what others would do differently.

the answer is staring you right in the face:

> I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini CLI

> The commit message claimed “60% cost savings.”

don't outsource your critical thinking to a chatbot.

or, if you feel you simply must have the chatbot do this work for you, supervise it more closely. instead you ignored it for 6 weeks:

> From Nov 2 to Dec 14, Cloud Run accrued ~$4,676.

[add-sub-mul-div]

Multiplying complexity by nondeterminism. AI is going to democratize the way people don't know what they're doing.