Yeah part of our performance evaluation at my company now is how much of our code is “made by AI”. I said sure buddy, added a code attribution to Claude so all of my code gets marked as AI generated even though I manually edit Claude’s subpar output all the time.
As long as I initially generate the code with Claude I can manually change whatever I want and it still somehow marks it all as “AI-generated”. It’s a stupid ass metric for so many reasons, especially because of how dumb their metric-generating LLM bot is.
but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).
In some companies, ‘optimize your token usage’ means using as many tokens as possible.
Yeah part of our performance evaluation at my company now is how much of our code is “made by AI”. I said sure buddy, added a code attribution to Claude so all of my code gets marked as AI generated even though I manually edit Claude’s subpar output all the time.
As long as I initially generate the code with Claude I can manually change whatever I want and it still somehow marks it all as “AI-generated”. It’s a stupid ass metric for so many reasons, especially because of how dumb their metric-generating LLM bot is.
Indeed.
“AI is good” became “Good employees use AI” became “The more AI the better” became “The more tokens used the better the employee.”
What’s incredible is that none of these are self-evidently true premises, but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).