For every $1 spent on AI coding tools, only $0.18 reaches production. Analyzed 1M+ PRs to find where the rest goes.

Tokenmaxxing is the new AI slop Posting from our company account, so the usual disclaimer: we build code review and reliability tooling, and that access is how we got this data. Pulled 1M+ pull requests across 2,444 engineering orgs to answer a question almost nobody is measuring: when a team spends on AI coding tools, how much of it actually turns into shipped product? The short version: $0.18 of every dollar reaches users. The other $0.82 goes to bug fixing, rework, and review that catches nothing. 44% of all PRs at the median org are reactive work, not new features.