Yes, "results are in". They're all over the map, about productivity, about stress and churn, about trust, about public sentiment, etc.
But sure, if you want to tell people their productivity will be measured by token usage, they will certainly respond to that incentive by setting your checkbook on fire while they work on a job search.
If a company wants to provide AI accounts for people, along with guidance for usage and non-usage, that might well make sense for some jobs. It certainly makes sense for some uses. If they start measuring token usage, that's even worse than when companies tried to measure lines of code written.
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
Or these?
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/03/16...
Or these?
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3955
Yes, "results are in". They're all over the map, about productivity, about stress and churn, about trust, about public sentiment, etc.
But sure, if you want to tell people their productivity will be measured by token usage, they will certainly respond to that incentive by setting your checkbook on fire while they work on a job search.
If a company wants to provide AI accounts for people, along with guidance for usage and non-usage, that might well make sense for some jobs. It certainly makes sense for some uses. If they start measuring token usage, that's even worse than when companies tried to measure lines of code written.