Bragging about token usage is like bragging about LoC written.

syntheticnature 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I was at Amazon last year, the bragging (from the AI poo-bah in my section of Amazon, note) about AI included "look at the total line count of commits from the heaviest AI users!"

So if AI screws something up and re-writes it and then screws it up again, needing another re-write, that counted as more positive than if it was done correctly, and simply, the first time.

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zeroonetwothree 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s honestly 10x worse than LOC. At least in the human era LOC had correlation to shipping features.

It’s more like bragging about compiler cycles spent.

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0xy 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't know where you're working but LLM enhanced development has skyrocketed our rate of feature development. As an example, a project roadmapped to take 7 months was delivered in only 4.5 because of CC/Codex.

I'm confused how anyone could believe it isn't an enhancer, unless they have refused to use any of the technologies.

	▲	morkalork 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're measuring success with time to delivery, that's a reasonable metric. Same with volume of features shipped. Also good. LoC or tokens burned... not so much.

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andai 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Obligatory:

Negative 2000 Lines of Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381252

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syntheticnature 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Versus my sibling comment to yours, I actually sent that to some internal folks after the bit about AI+total lines committed was said.

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dijksterhuis 4 hours ago | parent [-]

was there any kind of response or reaction to that? it’s something i would have done and probably wouldn’t have gone well. xD

	▲	syntheticnature an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't send it very high up the chain (and was looking for a job at the time anyhow) but mostly got back snickers from peers and an "I know, but this is a directive from above"