This is like measuring a carpenter’s work output by how much they use their hammer, not how much gets actually built. I hope every company that does this sorta bullshit goes belly up.
Using their hammer would be the tools they use to actually code. This is more like measuring a carpenter’s work by how often they get advice from the workers at Home Depot.
It strikes me that it’s probably because of all the visibity it offers them into what people are doing and drives them to interact with the chatbot instead of each other. Not everything is about having productive workers. A lot of it is about finding people who are compliant suck ups who won’t question the boss no matter what and eliminating anyone with a half a brain cell and an ounce of class solidarity.
Meanwhile the employees:
… or to get all these cupcake recipes. If all that matters not to get fired is active agents…
This is like measuring a carpenter’s work output by how much they use their hammer, not how much gets actually built. I hope every company that does this sorta bullshit goes belly up.
Wouldn’t it be like how often they use their measure tape?
Using their hammer would be the tools they use to actually code. This is more like measuring a carpenter’s work by how often they get advice from the workers at Home Depot.
If the company is only measuring token usage and not actual output, it’s more like measuring a carpenter’s work based on how many hammers they buy.
Yes.
But I do like that, by this measure, I have attained mastery of plumbing, woodworking, landscaping, and have become a master gardener.
Me when I find a skill trainer in Skyrim
They say you achieve mastery of a skill by spending 10,000 hours receiving advice from Hank over in Home & Garden.
It strikes me that it’s probably because of all the visibity it offers them into what people are doing and drives them to interact with the chatbot instead of each other. Not everything is about having productive workers. A lot of it is about finding people who are compliant suck ups who won’t question the boss no matter what and eliminating anyone with a half a brain cell and an ounce of class solidarity.
It’s about training their replacement. The more that they are forced to use it, the faster it will learn all of their jobs.
Having AI do your commits is a great way to game the system. Gives the added benefit of making it look like the AI wrote it for you as well.
Just add a co-authored-by line to your commit message to make it look like the AI wrote it.
But that doesn’t burn tokens. Comps can track how many tokens you use.
Yes it’s that dystopian.