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Best way to sabotage AI at work? (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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At work we will soon be getting access to agentic AI that parses through our gigantic code base and burns through money for very simple requests.

What would be the best way to maliciously comply with the management's decision for AI usage to be an everyday thing you are expected to do without getting found out?

My idea is spamming the living shit out of the most expensive models for pointless tasks and then insisting that the result is wrong, and work in the meantime. Nobody can complain if my work is still good, but they will notice that the AI budget is not worth it and stop the hype train.

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[–] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Obviously any code generated needs to be reviewed, so have it crank out a full review with a narrative description about how the error was found, why it's really an error, why it chose this fix, what other fixes it considered.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You should be able to nail a fat load of token spend for every little one-liner that way. Especially once it starts generating its own coding errors that trip the loop, so it just recurses in on itself with no actual human interactive audience to get in the way.

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