If any company announces that they use token consumption as an employee performance signal, for me that's close to a red flag to stay away from that company.
No company with good engineering leadership should act like this is remotely a good idea.
Meta does this. Guess what one of the criteria for their recent layoffs was.
I worked at a YC company that was doing this and left last month. I wonder where this all started from, VCs and tech execs are such a monoculture
Tokens are the new "lines of code per engineer". Easy to graph, easy to "manage".