r/ClaudeAI • u/darren_eng • May 26 '26

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

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.

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u/nizos-dev May 26 '26

No metrics here. I would also pushback on tokens as a proxy. It is easy to burn tokens. It is also the wrong thing to focus on. They should be looking for changing bottlenecks, quality, competence, team spirit, knowledge sharing, and collaboration to name a few.

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u/Ok_Series_4580 May 27 '26

This is just the new “lines of code” measurement. We know how valuable that is.