The token leaderboard trap
AI made coding faster, but not always shipping. Here is how to measure productivity without confusing token burn with value
I spend a huge amount of my working day with AI coding tools.
Not in the “AI suggested a for loop” way. I mean, implementation agents, document curation agents, or code review automation. I add AI to all areas of my work as a software engineer.
At Amazon, I am in the top 250-ish usage worldwide of kiro-cli, Amazon’s equivalent to Claude Code or Codex CLI. I regularly go above the monthly limits if I were an external user on the highest plan. It saves me time repeatedly because I have turned individual prompts into workflows that execute periodically for my individual work and my team's projects.