# Databricks says it cut an estimated $1.2M a year in AI waste in one hour

Databricks says Unity Gateway tracing and Genie One identified seven MCP-server bugs behind about $499,000 a year in wasted tokens, roughly 12,000 engineering hours a year of agent wait time, and 1,409 tool errors in 24 hours. Genie One ranked the fixes, and a coding agent helped close them within an hour.

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Source: Databricks · Published 9/25/2026, 08:06:26

Databricks says it found and eliminated an estimated $1.2 million a year in wasted AI spend and lost productivity in one hour. Using Unity Gateway tracing and Genie One, the company identified seven small MCP-server bugs.

Databricks says those bugs were driving about $499,000 a year in wasted tokens, roughly 12,000 engineering hours a year of agent wait time, and 1,409 tool errors in a single 24-hour window. Genie One turned the trace data into a ranked list of fixes, and a coding agent helped complete the work within the hour. Databricks describes the process in [how it cut wasted AI agent spend](https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-we-eliminated-1-million-year-wasted-ai-agent-spend-one-hour?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social).

Tags: Databricks, Genie One, Unity Gateway, MCP, AI agents

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