Companies are now starting to track the number of AI tokens used per employee.

Zapier says that flags anyone whose token use is 5x higher than their peers as a point for investigation.

And Vercel said a single engineer used $10,000 worth of tokens in a single day - but likely saved the company millions in the long run.

Token usage as a productivity metric used by execs is a genuinely interesting idea and I suspect we'll hear a lot more about this over the coming months.