If developers burn through thousands in AI tokens a day, does it really matter, and is it a good spend? Are the outputs actually checked for sanity, fitness, qa/qc, security etc. How much rework is coming out because of lack of validation, or too much automation in the soup.

The more I read, the more I feel that 1 dev, 1 ai agent with the dev as a gatekeeper is probably the most appropriate workflow. Where you now treat the single dev + ai as a team in terms of planning and cost analysis and you get about 1.2-1.3x the throughput compared to a traditional team of 3-5 devs with partial PM and partial QA where the Dev now needs to take on those roles too.

The output should include more/better testing, examples, demos etc... since the bus factor is now 1, but AI is expected to be able to do the heavy lift.