This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
Weave raised $13.5 million for its platform that tracks software engineers' AI spend. The startup quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid tokenmaxxing.Weave's Series A was led by Standard Capital with investments from Y Combinator and Moonfire.A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million.San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools, then consolidates it into an output score to help business leaders assess the return on every dollar spent on AI."Sales gets judged on one hard number, revenue, while engineering, the most analytical discipline in the company, gets evaluated on vibes," Adam Cohen, Weave's cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.
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Weave raised $13.5 million for its platform that tracks software engineers' AI spend. The startup quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid tokenmaxxing.Weave's Series A was led by Standard Capital with investments from Y Combinator and Moonfire.A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million.San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools, then consolidates it into an output score to help business leaders assess the return on every dollar spent on AI."Sales gets judged on one hard number, revenue, while engineering, the most analytical discipline in the company, gets evaluated on vibes," Adam Cohen, Weave's cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider. "We wanted to bring that same quantitative rigor to engineering, so we built that measurement layer first, and it became the company."The startup said that legacy metrics like lines of code produced were built for human output, not AI, which leads to rewarding quantity rather than quality, or "artificial bloat." Cohen said that having a measurement for AI activity cuts the incentive to tokenmax — the practice of treating high-volume AI use as a gauge of productivity.Earlier this year, many companies encouraged tokenmaxxing through gamified leaderboards and other incentives, before reining in AI spending and focusing on a return on investment. Companies like Weave, getDX, Jellyfish, LinearB, and OpenRouter are offering services to help companies reduce their AI spending.
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- Weave raised $13.5 million for its platform that tracks software engineers' AI spend. The startup quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid tokenmaxxing.Weave's Series A was led by Standard Capital with investments from Y Combinator and Moonfire.A startup that has developed software to track whether AI coding tools are actually making developers more productive has raised $13.5 million.San Francisco-based Weave builds tools that measure the work of human engineers and AI coding tools, then consolidates it into an output score to help business leaders assess the return on every dollar spent on AI."Sales gets judged on one hard number, revenue, while engineering, the most analytical discipline in the company, gets evaluated on vibes," Adam Cohen, Weave's cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.
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