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by HenryMulligan 29 days ago
Using that tool has gotta be a fireable offense, right?
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Of course, and it's essentially an over-the-top parody of what's really happening: People aren't literally running the tool, but running pointless agentic queries where the primary purpose is to drive token usage up, not get actual work done.

Actually... I wouldn't be surprised if some people were actually running the tool and got away with it (or praised for getting the metric up) for a long time...

If you're being told explicitly to consume tokens then leaving it running while you try to get real work done sounds value-added to me. "Don't worry boss, no one's beating our team on the token leaderboard this week..."
Time and time again, we get shown that the folks running companies still don't understand Goodhart's law

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure