Circle: Should you invest into people or AI tokens?

We recently hosted a Circle with Peter Malina, CPTO of Navigara, on a question most engineering organizations are now facing: after two years of buying AI tooling, seats, and pilots, did it actually work? The session dug into how you really know AI paid off, which metrics still hold up when AI writes much of the code, and why velocity and lines of code stopped meaning much. Together we looked at the hidden costs that rarely make the business case, from review burden to the technical debt that does not disappear just because it was produced faster, and asked the harder question of “faster at what,” when output goes up but it can still take weeks to notice a team built something that stopped mattering early on. Built around real cases and the numbers people actually report upwards, it was an open exchange rather than a lecture. Thank you to everyone who joined and shared their experience.