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.

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.

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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.

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dgellow 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could you both name and shame?

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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.

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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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		I work at a smaller company that does this.