The Leaderboard and the Meter

What happens when the only number an organization can see is the one on the invoice.

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Sometime late last year, Uber did what many technology leaders were either already doing or being told they should do. It put Claude Code in front of its engineers and encouraged them to use it as much as possible. This was not a cautious experiment tucked inside an innovation lab, waiting for a committee to decide whether …