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Can someone explain this to me as if ive avoided LLMs like cancer.
Your job is framing houses. A big part of that is using a hammer to drive nails. A rational person might expect their employer to make sure the house stands up, or even look at all the nails holding it together. But the world is so far from rational.
Your employer doesn't actually own any hammers, they rent them from OpenHammer (which rents closed-source hammers). OpenHammer bills your employer every time you pick up the hammer, whether you do anything useful with it or not.
Your employer just looks at their bill at the end of the month, and they offer a round of applause and a pat on the back for their most productive employees... you know, the ones that picked up the hammer a bunch of times?
So this "tool" just picks up a hammer a bunch of times, not doing anything useful with it or anything. It's mostly meming on how stupid a lot of employers are getting hyped on AI.
Your example isn't even far fetched. A friend of mine who worked in construction knew a crew of framers whose employer paid them based on the number of nails they used. Of course, they did exactly what their dumb employer should have expected them to do: Use way more nails than needed. Any place a nail would fit, they added one. He said listening to the crew work was literally a non-stop rapid fire thunk thunk thunk thunk as at least one of them was busy emptying his nailgun into the work at any given time. No idea how they stayed in business, but people giving dumb incentives is nothing new.
Some short-sighted companies are evaluating employees on AI use, with more being better. This script sends tons of requests to one of the main LLMs, allowing you to appear to use AI a ton. It has the side benefit of costing your employer a ton of money.
Another angle: the cost of AI is highly subsidized. Every use costs the AI company considerably more than they're charging (read Ed Zitron's commentary on this). Example: A June 2026 SemiAnalysis report shows that a $200/mo Claude subscription can, when maxed out, cost Anthropic $8000/mo in tokens. Therefore, one way to harm AI companies is to max out one's subscription.
i wonder if thats calculated/priced in the water/electricity usage too, or hazardous pollutants.
Haha i love it.
I was confused because I misread it as a way to get a job. Like it messed up thier ~~human~~ AI Resources software.
eli5: you use the tool more often, so you must work more, since ai is seen as amplifying the work output