Token usage is the new lines of code.

So the Meta story if you missed it. They made AI usage count in performance reviews. Someone internally built a leaderboard called Claudeonomics ranking the top 250 token burners. People were earning titles like Token Legend lol. Some guys were leaving agents running idle overnight, doing literally nothing, just so their number would be higher in the morning. Literally 73.7 trillion tokens in one month. That is around 221 million dollars. It stopped because a journalist found the leaderboard and not because