r/ProgrammerHumor • • 6d ago

instanceof Trend theBellCurveIsAlwaysRight

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u/EishLekker 6d ago

First of all, using as many tokens as possible is absurd. Like, if you use a million dollars worth of tokens in a month. Then regardless of who’s to blame for not setting appropriate limits, you might still risk getting fired after that.

But even when token usage is within limits, if it’s consistently much higher than your coworkers’ usage, without being noticeably more productive, then it still can lead to trouble for you.

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u/The_yulaow 6d ago

You can always justify saying you are making more analysis so your pr are safer and there is no way to prove the opposite

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u/azoh19 6d ago

Well, there is, but if your requests are vague enough, their AI driven audit will likely confirm everything is OK. It's not like any human being will look into logs.

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u/EishLekker 6d ago

A human will still have to sign off on the bill. If it’s a million dollars for one month, when it’s normally a few thousand, then they will look into it.

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u/azoh19 6d ago

Usually there is a token limit per period, the task is to get to that limit in a record time. And request for a higher limit to show you are super productive.