Tokenmaxxing is dead. Everyone's realized that token usage is a horrible way to measure productivity. So where do we go from here?
The next phase of AI adoption will be based on output, impact, and value you can trace: how much real value are you getting from each agent session?
Here are some of the ways we're addressing this at
@cognition:
1. Adaptive Routing - an intelligent model router that automatically selects the best AI model for each task. (other products are also starting to adopt this)
2. Spend Attribution -
@cognition auto-classifies every agent session by what it actually did (feature work, bug fixing, migrations, tests) and shows admins the spend behind each, right next to PRs merged. You can draw a straight line from every dollar spent to the outcome it bought.
3. Advanced automations - wiring agent sessions to the events that already cost teams engineering hours: production incidents in PagerDuty, failing deploys, alerts on a revenue-critical service. Each trigger maps to work that used to page a human, so the value isn't theoretical, it can be traced straight to the work it replaced.
4. AI Productivity Guarantee - if
@DevinAI delivers less engineering value than you’re paying for,
@cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10 million for Enterprise customers.
These are just some of the areas we're actioning and exploring, but the broader point is this: the design space for measuring AI value is still wide open. The winners will be the teams that can prove, compound, and operationalize the most impact.