I just don't understand how this is a metric now. With programmers, I can at least see how someone who doesn't know any better might think lines of code is a good metric. But this?
And it gets worse: The company now has to pay both for its employees(' brain) and the damn text-completion machine.
14 Comments
jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip · 99 pts · 130d
> Company sets token usage as performance metric
> I build an "agent" that uses browser automation to navigate company's entire website and verify it for correctness on every code change
> Set it to use top model on highest effort
> Rack up thousands of dollars of usage daily
> Suddenly we all have tokens caps and it's no longer tracked as a performance metric
BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 130d
At least as a programmer it's incredibly easy to burn through tokens. Just give it the curl codebase and say "rewrite this in Java".
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 130d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
Now I want to make an Ethernet adapter for the NES
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
While in the same context after it rewrites it...can you do it in kotlin actually?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
Fix these angular component tests. Yeah I can wait.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 130d
Managers: Holy shit this thing is so good at making me more efficient at my job (doing fuck-all but doing it via email so apparently it's important fuck-all) SURELY it will 10X the productivity of all my wage slaves!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 130d
Imagine judging your employees based on how much money they spend...
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 130d
Amazon is pro-climate change.
orioler25@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
Well yeah, it can't exist without it.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
The devs at work yesterday were just comparing token usage with CoPilot, I think I have asked 1 question this year so far...
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
Someone at work sent me a docker admiral project that uses an agent to spin up the environment. Literally wrote a README (well, copilot wrote it) that is to be fed to the agent in order to start the service. It was the most aggravating shit I've seen in a while. And all it does is run install on the projects and then run the dash script.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 130d
Ugh
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 128d
There are indian software engineers hiding under the floorboards
halfapage@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 130d
zeroConnection@programming.dev · 1 pts · 130d