Tokenmaxxing.' is reshaping the AI economy but the real return on that spending tells a different story.

For every dollar an enterprise spends on AI coding tools, 18 cents becomes shipped product, while the remaining 82 cents goes towards fixing, reworking, and reviewing the code generated by those tools.

This brief argues that government programmes and enterprises must shift from tracking raw token consumption to evaluating tangible outcomes—measuring cost per completed task, error rates, and acceptance rates to determine true operational value: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/from-tokens-to-weights-the-changing-value-of-ai