Engineering Fought Productivity Metrics. AI Ended the Fight

Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI token budget in four months, Salesforce's Anthropic bill reportedly runs around $300 million a year, and Meta logged over 60 trillion tokens in a single month on an internal leaderboard ranking roughly 85,000 employees. The article argues AI spending has ended engineering's exemption from hard productivity measurement, while DORA and SPACE show no single metric works: Faros data from 22,000 developers found bugs per developer up 54% and incidents per pull request up 242.7%.