Counting tokens is dumb. So we built a free metric for AI proficiency.
Charlie Graham
We’ve been trying to figure out a real answer to a question that keeps coming up: how do you measure whether someone is actually good at Claude Code, Codex, and the other AI coding tools? Not "do they use them," but how good are they at using AI. The first metric we looked at, like everyone else, was token usage. It’s the only number you can pull out of the box. Anthropic and OpenAI hand you spend data in the console. Spend correlates with cost. Cost is something finance asks about. So token usa