Revolut capped engineers' AI coding budgets — productivity barely moved
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-05
A follow-up detail in the Revolut AI coding cost story: in January 2026, Revolut rolled out Claude Code to its engineers with strict budgets, after some had been spending $1,000–$10,000 per month each on tokens with no visible return. Once the caps were in place, productivity numbers barely moved — the biggest spenders weren't buying proportionally more output.
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