Trees are burning, teams are burning out (opens in new tab)

I have spent 20 years in software development. I have never seen product teams work this hard, burn this many AI tokens, and deliver this little measurable value. Across the industry, big companies and startups alike are rebuilding how they make products. AI now drafts requirements, writes test frameworks, builds reference data, and ships code. Whether all that activity produces better products is, so far, unclear. Here is the uncomfortable part. Every token has a cost. Compute, energy, money...