Big Tech Splits Into 'AI Pods' Burning $5K/Month in Tokens Per Developer — Only 1 in 100 Ideas Ship to Production

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An industry insider reports that big tech companies have restructured into 'AI pods' — small teams burning massive amounts of AI tokens to rapidly prototype ideas, with roughly 1 in 100 reaching production. The SDLC hasn't fundamentally changed, so software engineering now demands an additional $5K/month per developer in AI token spend. This is one of the first specific cost-per-developer figures for enterprise AI-assisted development, suggesting the economics of AI coding are far from settled.