"If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement"

Apart from being a absolutely ridiculous metric, this is a bad approach, at least with current generation models. In my experience, the less you inspect what the model does, the more spaghetti-like the code will be. And the flying spaghetti monster eats tokens faster than you can blink! Or put more clearly: implementing a feature will cost you a lot more tokens in a messy code base than it does in a clean one. It's not (yet) enough to just tell the agent to refactor and make it clean, you have to give it hints on how to organise the code.

I'd go do far as to say that if you're burning a thousand dollars a day per engineer, you're getting very little bang for your tokens.

And your engineers probably look like this: https://share.google/H5BFJ6guF4UhvXMQ7