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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I just don't understand how this is a metric now. With programmers, I can at least see how someone who doesn't know any better might think lines of code is a good metric. But this?
And it gets worse: The company now has to pay both for its employees(' brain) and the damn text-completion machine.
> Company sets token usage as performance metric
> I build an "agent" that uses browser automation to navigate company's entire website and verify it for correctness on every code change
> Set it to use top model on highest effort
> Rack up thousands of dollars of usage daily
> Suddenly we all have tokens caps and it's no longer tracked as a performance metric
At least as a programmer it's incredibly easy to burn through tokens. Just give it the curl codebase and say "rewrite this in Java".
Fix these angular component tests. Yeah I can wait.
While in the same context after it rewrites it...can you do it in kotlin actually?
Imagine judging your employees based on how much money they spend...
Someone at work sent me a docker admiral project that uses an agent to spin up the environment. Literally wrote a README (well, copilot wrote it) that is to be fed to the agent in order to start the service. It was the most aggravating shit I've seen in a while. And all it does is run install on the projects and then run the dash script.
There are indian software engineers hiding under the floorboards
Managers: Holy shit this thing is so good at making me more efficient at my job (doing fuck-all but doing it via email so apparently it's important fuck-all) SURELY it will 10X the productivity of all my wage slaves!
Amazon is pro-climate change.
Well yeah, it can't exist without it.