Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

I find it kind of boggling that employers spend $200/month to make employees lives easier, for no real gain.

That’s right. Productivity does go up, but most of these employees aren’t really contributing directly to revenue. There is no code to dollar pipeline. Finishing work faster means some roadmap items move quicker, but they just move quicker toward true bottlenecks that can’t really be resolved quickly with AI. So the engineers sit around doing nothing for longer periods of time waiting to be unblocked. Deadlines aren’t being estimated tighter, they are still as long as ever.

Enjoy this time while it lasts. Someday employers might realize they need to hire less and just cram more work into individual engineers schedules, because AI should supposedly make work much easier.