[illithid0]

>"He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features."

Goodhart's law strikes again at someone with enough power to be both ignorant of it and make others suffer their ignorance. You cannot simply measure productivity by tokens spent just like you can't measure it by hours spent in a chair at a desk.

[colechristensen]

You can measure productivity by hours spent at a desk?

[batch12]

You can measure attendance by hours spent at a desk

[devttyeu]

Well if you're a devshop just billing hours of mostly low impact work then hours are very much equal to productivity.

[saghm]

Next time you're going to work for an hour, ping me, and I bet I can surprise you with how much less productive I am than you

[epolanski]

Productivity is measured by economists in $/hour.

Which is why two identical jobs with the same real life output have drastically different productivity.

A nursing home in Luxembourg has 5 times the productivity of one in Romania despite the services being identical and tech-unrelated.