| ▲ | jrjeksjd8d 18 hours ago |
| The quoted revenue numbers seem insane, but I guess it's the result of corporate deals where every developer seat is hundreds of dollars a month? My job has been publicly promoting who's on top of the "AI use dashboard" while our whole product falls apart. Surely this house of cards has to collapse at some point, better get public money before it does. |
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| ▲ | kace91 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I wish there was some sort of community project where engineers could whistleblow about their product falling apart through misguided AI pushes. I see it everywhere in my private circles, I'm not sure the story is truly reaching the big public. I've gone through many many fads and smoke during my career, but this is the first time I'm actually worried about things falling apart. |
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| ▲ | MeetingsBrowser 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| At least I’m not alone. My company has a vibe coded leaderboard tracking AI usage. Our token usage and number of lines changed will affect our performance review this year. |
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| ▲ | jrjeksjd8d 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have started using the most token-intensive model I can find and asking for complicated tasks (rewrite this large codebase, review the resulting code, etc.) The agent will churn in a loop for a good 15-20 minutes and make the leaderboard number go up. The result is verbose and useless but it satisfies the metrics from leadership. | | | |
| ▲ | georgemcbay 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Our token usage and number of lines changed will affect our performance review this year. The AI-era equivalent of that old Dilbert strip about rewarding developers directly for fixing bugs ("I'm gonna write me a new mini-van this afternoon!") just substitute intentional bug creation with setting up a simple agent loop to burn tokens on random unnecessary refactoring. | |
| ▲ | dgellow 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Could you both name and shame? | | |
| ▲ | porridgeraisin 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Name pretty much any company. Every one of my friends have said their company is doing this. Across 3 countries mind you. Especially if they already use microsoft office suite. Those folks got sold copilot on a deal it seems. | | |
| ▲ | eikenberry 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Opposite. Everyone of my friend's companies don't do this. They all work at smaller companies though, which I bet is the difference. | | |
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