What a shocking turn of events...but not really.

"Hi, agent. Launch two additional agent instances. Prompt them with this message."

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

what could possibly go wrong?

It would be very easy to write a script that burns tokens when your leaderboard position changes. The problem is competition, which if scripted, would result in tokens burned going through the roof at an accelerating pace.

Naturally, even with people, that will still happen. It'll just be a little bit slower instead.

Eventually they will run out of money. The real question is whether the planet survives while they drain their bank accounts.

My last job started pushing harder for stuff like this. Every week the CEO saying how we need to use these AI tools more and not enough people are doing it.

They even gave us bullshit tasks that were a complete waste of time and an AI tool to do it faster. You know what is more efficient? Not doing it at all!