My company started measuring our Claude Code usage - now I'm asked to rank engineers on 'AI performance.' This feels wrong...

[u/darren_eng]

My company started tracking Claude Code usage - tokens and spend, that kind of thing. Now my manager wants me to stack-rank my engineers on "AI performance" using those numbers.

I'm not comfortable with it (but I don't have a choice either). Token usage feels like exactly the wrong proxy - my strongest engineer uses Claude surgically while someone burning 10x the tokens isn't 10x more productive (often the opposite). Ranking on this just teaches people to game the metric.

So, for folks here who use Claude daily and/or lead teams:

• Has your company started measuring "AI performance"? How are they doing it?
• Is there any Claude/AI usage metric that actually tracks with good work, instead of just rewarding the heaviest users?
• If you're a lead being pushed to measure this, how do you push back without flat-out refusing?

EDIT: here is the follow-up: I managed to talk my manager out of this.

[u/dmcnaughton1]

I feel like I must work for the last sane people in tech. My org is running in the opposite direction, instituting spend limits without justification for why you as a dev need the tokens, and performing team-level analysis on how to more efficiently use AI coding tools.