▲ 357 ▼ 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 223 comments fedilink hide all child comments Can't you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs Updated with correct link
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) I just don't imagine any company actually using tokens as a metric permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) I just don't imagine any company actually using tokens as a metric permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) I just don't imagine any company actually using tokens as a metric permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent