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Jonathan Corbet

I have heard of similar things happening at other companies. Call me old fashioned, but to me it seems that a company that judges its employees based on how many AI tokens they consume has badly lost its way.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/
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bix@chaos.social

Andreas Sikkema

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@corbet so they’re measuring the performance of their outside sales people by the amount of fuel they buy at fuel stations 😂

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zev@honk.bewilderbeest.net

zev

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@corbet Once upon a time lines of code seemed like the most jaw-droppingly stupid measure of programmer productivity imaginable...but the industry has managed to outdo itself.

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kevin@mastodon.km6g.us

Kevin P. Fleming

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@corbet It's Lines of Code all over again.

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