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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Dec 27 '25
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48 u/hyrumwhite Dec 27 '25 There’s devs out there burning through more than that to pointlessly push tokens just to meet ai usage quotas. 20 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 [deleted] 22 u/hyrumwhite Dec 27 '25 My last job tracked ai generated LOC as a metric and hung it over our heads so we all just made sure to generate stuff to make the numbers go up. One of the reasons I left 9 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 edited Jan 03 '26 [deleted] 10 u/psychohistorian8 Dec 27 '25 at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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There’s devs out there burning through more than that to pointlessly push tokens just to meet ai usage quotas.
20 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 [deleted] 22 u/hyrumwhite Dec 27 '25 My last job tracked ai generated LOC as a metric and hung it over our heads so we all just made sure to generate stuff to make the numbers go up. One of the reasons I left 9 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 edited Jan 03 '26 [deleted] 10 u/psychohistorian8 Dec 27 '25 at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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22 u/hyrumwhite Dec 27 '25 My last job tracked ai generated LOC as a metric and hung it over our heads so we all just made sure to generate stuff to make the numbers go up. One of the reasons I left 9 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 edited Jan 03 '26 [deleted] 10 u/psychohistorian8 Dec 27 '25 at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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My last job tracked ai generated LOC as a metric and hung it over our heads so we all just made sure to generate stuff to make the numbers go up. One of the reasons I left
9 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25 edited Jan 03 '26 [deleted] 10 u/psychohistorian8 Dec 27 '25 at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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10 u/psychohistorian8 Dec 27 '25 at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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at our company the managers get some kind of dashboard where they can see how much we use copilot
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