AI helped 100,000 developers ship 30% more software. The number of people using it didn't move. Building got cheap. Being worth using didn't.

AI helped 100,000 developers ship 30% more software. The number of people using it didn't move. Building got cheap. Being worth using didn't.

Token budgets are becoming the new productivity flex in Silicon Valley. But is measuring token usage just as broken as counting lines of code? Here is what the research and the…