Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

can't come home today babe im tokenmaxxing

Narrator: “it wasn’t just Amazon”

Use Vim or you're fired!

There are some secret random seeds that will prevent the end token and just keep generating forever. This will ruin your hardware though.

Long live Goodhart!

When a measure becomes a target....

"When a metric becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Dumb bureaucracy with dumb requirements will be met with corresponding response.

Love it. This needs to become a new trend, and price per token can't rise soon enough.

Has anyone actually seen true business lift from agents or is this one of those "do stupid things faster" situation?

I don’t even understand the point of making up tasks. Surely there’s some moonshot frustration project in your workday you could have an agent plugging away at, even if it’s unsuccessful.

Happening at my company as well.

This is an early symptom of the future devaluation of the skill of developing software. The value is going down because there is too little software developing work for the number of people who currently can do it.

New proposed corporate slogan: "Tokens must roll for victory!"

The original (third reich): "Wheels must roll for victory!"

It will end in the same manner.

yesterday's front page: AI is making me dumb. today's front page: employees are making AI dumb. the circle is complete.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This seems like AI is the new ponzi scheme.

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If GDP is going up, we must be wealthier and more productive, right? Surely? (/s)