Blue_Morpho comments on AI coders are carrying half-open laptops

AI coders are carrying half-open laptops (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Can't you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago (3 children)

When your boss ranks you based on the number of tokens you burn, there's no choice.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ohoho, I know exactly how to burn a silly amount of tokens if I want to, which is why that metric is absolutely garbage - arguably worse than ranking developer performance by SLOC committed.

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If your metric is usage, it is incredibly easy to game, just send agents on wild goose chases all day long and never accept the results.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Part of the scoring at my company is how many generated lines of code you accept.

Going back to the beginning of the year, I think I’m up to 6

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Have it write all of your logging code for you, it may be inaccurate but it is the least damaging place to take the hit as you can just manually search in the source code for where the print was from. They always do something stupid and non uniform making most statements traceable indirectly.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

This makes my ops guys cry.

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

If you fully inform them on the situation, they will be cool with it. We are all in this shit together, well until everything falls apart. Add a [] to the prefix on each statement, who the fuck cares. It was the LLM that did it, not you and you were forced to use it.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Still too much effort.

Automate a script to send AI agents on goose chases for you.

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It's not about effort as much as it is about keeping your job, while not injecting chaos into a code base.

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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I just don't imagine any company actually using tokens as a metric

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[–] SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Happened to a friend of mine at his company. It seems the company wanted to justify their subscription costs.

I'm sure if you are corpo-brained (brain dead) enough it makes sense. AI = magic efficiency machine, therefore an employee that uses more tokens = more efficient worker. Of course, in practice most competent people affected by this policy at his company started burning tokens with wild goose chases when they needed to increase that metric.

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