[dijksterhuis]

> [performance variance between engineers] is now directly measurable [by measuring token usage]

… ie token use ~= productivity output

unfortunately measuring the number of tokens used is about as useful as a measure of productivity/performance as is measuring the number of times i hopped around on one foot last week (less time hopping ~= more time coding).

it’s just a measure of the number of tokens that an engineer used. it doesn’t necessarily mean that engineer is more productive. they might be doing more tokens because they ended up re-doing one minor feature a hundred times because they don’t understand the language / requirements etc. it could even be a negative relationship to productivity / performance!

pretty sure that’s what gp was getting at. see LoSC.