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If Uber is like most other companies, there's a leaderboard for AI tokens consumed. If maximizing your token usage is going to get you to the top of the leaderb
by ori_b 6mo ago
If Uber is like most other companies, there's a leaderboard for AI tokens consumed. If maximizing your token usage is going to get you to the top of the leaderboard, and therefore promoted for "productivity", people are going to find creative ways to be "productive".
- traderj0e 6mo agoThe tokenmaxxing leaderboard where I work has a lot of new hires on it
- ori_b 6mo agoAsking the LLM to spawn a subagent per file and look for bugs is a good way to waste a lot of tokens real fast for leaderboard success, and it's pretty defensible as useful work if someone tries to call you on it.
- traderj0e 6mo agoYeah and it's a natural extension of the typical busywork people used to spam pre-AI, "I split your ticket into 10 tickets and made a kanban for it"