It's wild that the article frames this as

> what started as an experiment in productivity became a runaway success

and

> figuring out if the company can afford this level of productivity at scale

It seems like they're equating "developers are spending a ton of money on this" with "this is creating a ton of value".

I'm not saying that AI tools aren't valuable, but the article doesn't question this equivalence at all.

Bizarrely I feel like that reflects how a lot of tech leadership are viewing it? I can't explain this behavior but this is the first time I've seen this inversion: leaders believing money spent on something is itself value. I have dev friends who are legitimately under an edict to burn more tokens! It's freakish.