• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah, my manager expressed satisfication with me being one of the people using my quota of tokens.

    I have generated so much throwaway content that never gets used and only gets deleted to burn the tokens to avoid getting the “you aren’t using AI enough” talk. The fact they can see my actual productive output and believe AI is involved shows how utterly disconnected the metric is from reality.

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      1 hour ago

      It’s the same shit as tracking number of commits or lines of code committed, but magnified by a thousand.

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      5 hours ago

      Damn how can I get a job whose primary KPI is just burning tokens?

      Edit: actually the answer is “Amazon consultant” based on the experience I had observing one of them “working”. He just repeatedly prompted their LLM and went around in circles instead of actually doing anything useful.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        I’ll say that it is only one thing.

        So if I just sat around burning tokens without anyone seeming to have any idea what I actually do around here I’d be out. If I just did my job but didn’t appear to use tokens, management would ding me for being some luddite.