Your organization's token spend is off the charts because you've thrown everyone into the deep end and said "swim!". Of course there's deeply inefficient use of tokens, everyone is just doing their own thing.
They're running loops hoping for some outcome, running local code review on every change, have agents polling for PR comments on their laptops. Not to mention the sheer volume of duplicative context, internal skills, and other support systems they've burned tokens creating. And this doesn't even account for the skill gap of effective users versus novice users.
It's like the industry forgot 40 years of lessons learned on building efficient engineering teams and practices. Software engineering is a system, treat it like one and you might find tokens are actually worth the spend.
Got to come full circle with @nathansobo with helping launch Atom 1.0 way back in the day, and now bringing Auggie to @zeddotdev today. 10 years in the making.