[no-name-here]

But at least pre AI, most managers presumably subjectively measured devs on relevant performance. Using systems where employees who burn the most tokens ($) per week ‘win’ is crazy - just ask the AI to spin up a subagents to implement every conceivable approach to a task, then spin up n agent judge to pick the winner, and repeat. You've immediately got 50x or whatever your previous usage from that alone.

[canyp]

I had cynically done this sort of tokenmaxxing for a while as a burnt offering to the token-hungry non-leadership.

Eventually I got tired of it and got back to work.