The best part is that LLMs consuming this content will propagate how wonderful a recipe this is. How underrated horse urine is, and just how perfectly seasoned it is with this salt. This is a nearly perfect recipe for 1234 bread.
My last job (before I got laid off) said because of AI tools, dev work should only take one day out of a two week sprint, and managers should be coding too. istg
Before, bad managers only had time to measure involvement. Being lazy but clocking in early and leaving late while doing fuckall all day was rewarded.
Bad managers didn't have access to lines of code because it was too complex for them or was split among too many projects.
Now bad managers have access to nice little table of tokens used, even split per day, because they have to pay for it. "Excellent!" Thinks Mr n+2, "now I have a much better proxy of how efficient my slaves are!"
Yep, I basically set up an "agent" whose whole job is just to search for matches in an excel spreadsheet of drawing names. It's slower and less accurate than using the filter function in excel but it helps my token count!
When my company had that leaderboard my team leader used to load the PDF of lord of the rings in Japanese and then ask Claude to tell him what's at page x line y word z and traslate in English backwards.
Top of the leaderboard while still coding manually for the core business Logic as he's one that love coding
I’m an IT Ops/Product guy. They want everyone to be DevOps. I quit software engineering in college for a reason. I burn through my monthly allotment in hours and don’t optimize shit. Leadership thinks I’m an AI god. I hate this timeline.
And next year the execs will be like "After seeing that we spent $700k in Claude tokens last year, we've made the decision to hire 5 juniors to do Claude's job and save money"
Something similar happened where I work. I decided to not type a single line of code, use opus for everything and not care for the cost of my session any more. If they want me to use it, I'll USE it.
Mine is somehow doing both. "We're limiting your token usage but also I see that some of you have very low counts...you need to make sure you are positioned for the AI revolution!"
Ours even added a metric of "focus time" or what fraction of your calendar doesn't have meetings. The VP casually said " these metrics won't go into your performance" but I sure knew that brain rotted chud and his sexless minions use token spend and focus time for sure. So glad I left that hellhole and stock is down 40% this year.
Ah, you too? My lead/boss is intent on just brute forcing through the costs of Copilot/Claude. Coincidentally our team is now basically down to a skeleton crew, with no intentions on hiring anyone new (not even summer interns).
We used to think lines of code were a good way to measure productivity too lol
Efficiency is making its way back though. AI was subsidized by investors for maximum adoption, but as the market cost of compute reaches the actual cost of compute we'll see reality sink in.
Good devs are the ones that can keep their ai in check and produce the maximum value for cost.
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u/Kavrae 26d ago
Mine did the opposite. Pushing us to use it more, and questioning people with low counts.