I use CC almost daily, and I have a Max subscription and have never hit a hard cap. I spend $100/month.
How are people burning through hundreds/thousands of $ of tokens a week/month?
What am I doing wrong.
Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
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#342People want to get promoted or put things on their resume about AI, the only way is to force others to use/work with AI to bump up their numbers on the resume or to say they pushed some new AI initiative. Because all the new jobs or promotions require the new hot thing - AI.
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#343Not just Amazon, too. It feels like all of big tech (and some smaller firms) have simultaneously gone insane. Imagine if your CEO woke up one day and told the company: "We need to encourage travel spending. Please book as many business trips as you can, and spend as much money as possible. Fly first class to our satellite offices! Take limos instead of Ubers! Eat at fine restaurants! Make sure you are constantly trav…
This is what inspired me to build my new CLI tool, Burn, Baby, Burn ( https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/tree/main ). (If you are a VP at Amazon, yes, I'll consider acquisition offers. I'm also working on an enterprise version of this with additional features.) Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151287
This is hilarious and utter genius.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we had a way of measuring velocity, we'd already be using that instead of tokens.
We had a way of measuring velocity, but who cares about estimating stories when we could be spinning up more agents? Burn a bunch of tokens and those stories will be DONE before you could even find your planning poker cards!
This but unironically.
The speed of generating code is now faster than the time it takes to plan and estimate how long it will take to generate the code.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what inspired me to build my new CLI tool, Burn, Baby, Burn ( https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/tree/main ). (If you are a VP at Amazon, yes, I'll consider acquisition offers. I'm also working on an enterprise version of this with additional features.) Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151287
Won't the company audit the requests to AI and see you're sending a bunch of BS?
If only Scott Adams were alive to write Dilbert comics about this.
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#346Not just Amazon, too. It feels like all of big tech (and some smaller firms) have simultaneously gone insane. Imagine if your CEO woke up one day and told the company: "We need to encourage travel spending. Please book as many business trips as you can, and spend as much money as possible. Fly first class to our satellite offices! Take limos instead of Ubers! Eat at fine restaurants! Make sure you are constantly trav…
I know some that was told to try and use AI more on the job so they created some agent to just burn tokens and ended up using about 10x what the next highest employee used. Buddy expected to get shit but instead got an accolade and was asked to give a short talk to the other employees about how they could match their success.
We need an Office Space 2 just about AI shenanigans.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
While output may have been part of it. It's possible that by staying later (and working longer), they had better relationships with upper management. "I used to get my work done on time and leave" This sounds like you just wanted to get your work done and not foster any work relationships. This is fine, but you will not get promoted this way (as you've seen). Moving up in a company is 30% work and 70% networking/bein…
I took a job with the state I live in recently because friends were promoted over competent employees (not even counting myself in that because they were just promoted to my level). New job is fully remote and has a clear path to advancement based on clear work based metrics. While it may be true that it's pretty standard, I'm convinced that any organization that relies more on face time and friendships than on actua…
It’s also a workplace whose success is in the past and has started the glide down into lower profits, revenue and wages.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
At my company we were told AI spend was part of perf review and that the "singularity" had happened. Now 20% of our infrastructure spend is tokens. The average number of pull requests per dev per week increased with all this spend. From 4.2 to 5.1. And that includes a huge chunk of PRs that are just agents changing a line or two in a config. It's all magical thinking
> The average number of pull requests per dev per week increased with all this spend. From 4.2 to 5.1. That's it? I've seen people that are consistently putting out four PRs per day . I don't/can't even code review them. So much of what we do is now just rubber-stamping PRs. We were even told that we shouldn't be writing code by hand anymore.
My main problem putting out that many PRs per day is getting them approved and merged back into main so I can start the next one.
I guess “stacked” PRs are a thing now? I haven’t figured out the process that avoids making the merges for stacked PRs a complete mess, though.
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#349Not just Amazon, too. It feels like all of big tech (and some smaller firms) have simultaneously gone insane. Imagine if your CEO woke up one day and told the company: "We need to encourage travel spending. Please book as many business trips as you can, and spend as much money as possible. Fly first class to our satellite offices! Take limos instead of Ubers! Eat at fine restaurants! Make sure you are constantly trav…
My dad worked at a company that had their own travel agency (early 90s when you needed a travel agent for reasons that no longer apply), and he was often booked on the more expensive flight because the travel agency made more money. More than once he could have got first class for less on a different flight but company policy didn't allow him to fly first class. We have always been living in bonkers time.
We have always been living in the Dilbert and/or Office Space universe.
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
We had a way of measuring velocity, but who cares about estimating stories when we could be spinning up more agents? Burn a bunch of tokens and those stories will be DONE before you could even find your planning poker cards!
This but unironically. The speed of generating code is now faster than the time it takes to plan and estimate how long it will take to generate the code.
Generating more code faster might be useful, but there have to be some other constraints on it.
Using this paradigm, we can achieve unlimited bugs sooner than ever before.
1. To fix a bug, always add code, never remove. 2. Whenever you fix one bug, always introduce at least two new ones.