The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever

Companies are facing unexpectedly high bills from AI coding tools as usage scales up.

Anthropic’s Claude Code is seeing higher projected costs, while Microsoft is shifting GitHub Copilot to usage-based billing.

Research cited in the article finds weak evidence that AI adoption reliably boosts revenue or productivity.

The combination of rising token costs and unclear ROI is making enterprise AI coding adoption harder to justify.