What is your bar even? automated coding has changed the game already.

Isn’t this analogous to saying if farming equipment is so productive why doesn’t John Deer hoard all the tractors and do the farming themselves?

Scrum spending is very rare IMO. No company I have worked at pays anything for scrum.

What about that means AI coding is a fad?

They can be reinforced with best practices and context windows etc will increase.

Setting a cap motivates developers to invest their tokens wisely such as choosing the right models and not burning tokens for fun or side projects, same as any budget.. it’s not any deeper than that.

At my company we can ask for temporary cap limits if it’s justified, which is fairly common.

I have the same experience. Slow is smooth with AI is still productivity improvement.

But is it enough of an improvement to justify the cost? (Since the current raises are probably just the beginning)

It depends :). It’s enough I pay for it for my silly side project. Historically we’ve paid a lot for software tools. IDEs and even documentation used to be pretty expensive. AI seems at least on par with those.

I've never paid for any developer tools or documentation.

These are clearly useful.

Hah. Great example actually. But far less common than AI afaict.

Oracle DBs have powered enormous numbers of applications and economic value.