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FartyMcFartertoday at 5:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

If any company announces that they use token consumption as an employee performance signal, for me that's close to a red flag to stay away from that company.

No company with good engineering leadership should act like this is remotely a good idea.


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LaurensBERtoday at 5:18 PM

Tokens are the new "lines of code per engineer". Easy to graph, easy to "manage".

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abvdaskertoday at 5:33 PM

Meta does this. Guess what one of the criteria for their recent layoffs was.

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an0maloustoday at 5:29 PM

I worked at a YC company that was doing this and left last month. I wonder where this all started from, VCs and tech execs are such a monoculture