Jacob McDaniel

Jacob McDaniel

UX Designer. Combat Veteran. Beer Nerd.

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Principal Product Designer & Design Leader with 17+ years in complex B2B environments, including fintech and SaaS. Expert in AI products and scaling design systems while leading high-performing teams from startup to enterprise. - Led design strategy for AI integration and new products in fintech. - Established an enterprise design system for 28+ applications, reducing design inconsistencies by 80% and development time by 25%. - Expanded design teams from 1 to 20+ members, aligning efforts across Product Management, Engineering, and Data for user-friendly experiences. Strategic leadership, AI product strategy, research-driven design sprints, Figma. Seeking Principal/Senior/Director roles in SaaS that integrate design craft, leadership, and strategic vision.

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Robat Das

5d ago

How are you handling LLM API costs in production? Billing alerts? Hard limits? Nothing?

Running agents in production is getting expensive fast especially when something loops, retries, or a user abuses the system. Curious what others are actually doing:

  • Relying on provider-side billing alerts?

  • Hard limits set on the OpenAI/Anthropic dashboard?

  • Custom solution you built yourself?

  • Nothing yet and just hoping for the best?

 

 I've been deep in this problem lately actually built something around it (launching tomorrow on PH). Would love to hear real approaches first though, especially from anyone running multi-tenant SaaS where you need per-user cost control.

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