At the same weekly commit count, the 90th-percentile engineer burned 39 to 240 times the coding-agent tokens of the 10th...

At the same weekly commit count, the 90th-percentile engineer burned 39 to 240 times the coding-agent tokens of the 10th. That is from 404 JetBrains engineers over five weeks. Within one person, doubling spend went with about 10% more commits, and work metrics explained 38% of the spread between people. The authors' advice: treat token spend as resource accounting, not productivity.https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13396#AI #AIAgents #Programming #DevOps

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