There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of AI coding agents delivers more code than ever, what their managers ought to be measuring is less clear. Enormous token budgets—essentially, the amount of AI processing power a developer is authorized to consume—have become a badge of honor among Silicon Valley developers,…
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