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>"He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful c
by illithid0 4mo ago
>"He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features."
Goodhart's law strikes again at someone with enough power to be both ignorant of it and make others suffer their ignorance. You cannot simply measure productivity by tokens spent just like you can't measure it by hours spent in a chair at a desk.
- colechristensen 4mo agoYou can measure productivity by hours spent at a desk?
- batch12 4mo agoYou can measure attendance by hours spent at a desk
- epolanski 4mo agoProductivity is measured by economists in $/hour. Which is why two identical jobs with the same real life output have drastically different productivity. A nursing home in Luxembourg has 5 times the productivity of one in Romania despite the services being identical and tech-unrelated.