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 sharpest minds in engineering actually say.

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.

Staggering token spending is forcing Indian firms to explore ways to rein in AI cost. This is where open-source models, small language models & inference layer startups step in,…