I've not seen anyone yet implement a true cost to productivity assessment or guardrails for AI usage yet. Sure this is hard to do with people, but performance management is a well understood field with a hundred years of practice for knowledge workers.

We don't get unlimited hiring budget, so we also won't get unlimited token budgets, and we as the operators will be responsible for the productivity of our agents.

What does performance management for engineers look like when dollar token cost is included in reviews? I think it's going to change a lot of assumptions and a lot of strategy around AI use.

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