{"id":661,"slug":"rule-pay-for-claude-code-plus-cursor-or-copilot","title":"RULE: Every Candid developer gets paid Claude Code + Cursor (or Copilot). ~$30-40/mo/person is not a real number against the productivity lift.","kind":"rule","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","candid-team"],"topics":["agency-methodology","ai-dev-productivity"],"reference_body":"**Rule:** Every developer at Candid gets paid Claude Code Pro ($20/mo) **and** either Cursor ($20/mo) or VS Code + Copilot ($10/mo).\n\n**Why:** Total cost ~$30-40/mo/person. Against any plausible productivity lift (see [[ai-dev-productivity-realistic-ceiling-2026]]), the ROI is trivial.\n\n**How to apply:** part of standard developer onboarding. Build a private skill/prompt library (a `prompts/` folder in the agency template repo) for: Astro component scaffolding, content collection schemas, CSS architecture patterns, accessibility audits, INP investigation playbook.\n\n**Threshold to revisit:** if delivered output per developer-week isn't up by Q3 2026, the workflow needs revisiting, not the tools.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"ai-dev-productivity-realistic-ceiling-2026","title":"AI-assisted dev productivity 2026: published evidence ranges from 21-28% speedup (GovTech) to 19% slowdown (METR RCT) — honest ceiling is 1.3-1.7× for fluent users","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T21:24:18.335Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T21:24:18.335Z"}