software engineering
How Cutting Token‑Heavy AI Suggestions Restored 30% Developer Productivity in a 4‑Week Sprint
In a four-week sprint, cutting token-heavy AI suggestions boosted developer productivity by 30% by reducing irrelevant code, cutting context-switch time, and increasing merge-ready commits. When my team at a mid-size SaaS firm let an AI assistant churn out suggestions without token monitoring, we saw the codebase swell by 12k lines