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Finding the Link Uber Missed: How to Connect AI Code Spend to Business Value

A developer argues that measuring the return on investment of AI coding tools is impossible without first measuring engineering productivity. The post critiques Uber's approach to AI code spend and proposes a framework to connect AI tool usage to business value.

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@navigara/you-cant-measure-roi-on-ai-coding-tools-if-you-never-measured-engineering-f8cc38267eb4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596337

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medium.com — original article The AI-Augmented Developer: A Process for Writing Production Code With Agents My trust gradient How to constrain a coding agent using only files you own
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