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Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
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Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#62Not 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…
Bragging about token usage is like bragging about LoC written.
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Negative 2000 Lines of Code
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#63I work at a FAANG (not Amazon), and have heard this a lot, both internally and publicly. Except, never officially from anyone that mattered (leadership). It always starts with a rumor and/or someone (internal) creating a dashboard/metric, and blows up from there. I've even heard leaders proclaim that it's NOT what they're looking at, and that you better NOT be wasting those expensive tokens.
Now, they might be; they've certainly used silly metrics in the past (LoC, commit count, etc.) without ever fully acknowledging it. But I don't believe that it's as simple as more tokens = more better.
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#64Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#65Long live Goodhart!
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
i call BS on this story
I don’t.
Things that rhyme with this have indeed been happening at the biggest names.
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#67Use Vim or you're fired!
this one is legit the right call, though
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#68It's a shame AI now has a universal basic jobs[1] program, but humans still not. Companies are paying AI to dig holes, so other AI can fill them.
[1] https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#69If GDP is going up, we must be wealthier and more productive, right? Surely? (/s)
Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
#70It's a shame AI now has a universal basic jobs[1] program, but humans still not. Companies are paying AI to dig holes, so other AI can fill them. [1] https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
We didn't. The USSR had 100% employment long ago[0], and all the poverty that goes with it.
This isn't like that, as it isn't funded through taxes. This is private companies experimenting with their money, and risking downstream cost increases that may cause people to go elsewhere, as they do when they try anything new.
This is much better than just funding people regardless of productivity through forced taxes.
[0] https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-achieving-full-employmen...