Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data.

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    1 day ago

    When a measure is used as a metric, it ceases to be a valuable measure.

    It’s literally a software engineers job to consider and understand functions. If you tell me I’ll be judged by the output of a function, I will crack it open to understand what inputs maximize outputs.

    I’ll burn though however many tokens you want me to. Give me hardware and a blank cheque I’ll bring a data center to its knees. I’m guessing your hope was that tokens burn would translate into productivity, but that hope was misplaced and that failure is on you.