I do a lot of client work for fortune 100’s.

Over the last month I have seen companies scrambling to measure deliverables against cost. Most of the back room talk is to the affect of giving devs a small allowance ($500 a month) and then making them prove their own productivity increases (again, based on deliverables, not LoC) before they either take it away or give them more.

Obviously this won’t be on an individual basis but some kind of unit.

Either way, with how much I see these companies cutting back I have no idea how the big AI companies are going to be profitable.