[jpalomaki]

”Engineers were actively encouraged to use tools like Claude Code and Cursor, even ranking them on internal leaderboards based on usage”

Token maxxing? Might explain high costs if you are actively encouraging developers to spend as much tokens as possible.

[mizzao]

The good ol' measuring inputs, not outputs...

(Other inputs from days of yore: number of people that report to you, budget allocation to your team. Nothing new under the sun!)

[evnp]

Is there an xyz's law for this yet? Will add - lines of code (as long as you don't believe code is the product/output).

[wat10000]

There's Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

[evnp]

There it is. Thanks!