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Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive (www.404media.co)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah no. If my boss comes to tell me that from now on my "productivity" will be measured in token usage rather than actual "production", you can bet I will use agents for every fucking thing. Hell, I'll even make a desktop clock that works by asking the IA what time is it every milisecond and then updating the time on screen every time. I'm gonna burn tokens till you regret it.

If after this happens, the rules of billing change and my boss starts getting charged per token usage instead of a flat charge per month, that's not my problem; until my productivity stops being measured in token usage, you are gonna pay dumb money for your dumbness.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

If my boss comes to tell me that from now on my “productivity” will be measured in token usage rather than actual “production”

Did your boss actually say this, or are you just going off of some memes you saw and think thats something happening often.

Most companies care about getting work done in as few tokens as possible now, developers that can achieve the same results but with less tokens are extremely valuable.

Not only that, but less tokens also inherently means faster.

Any company that is blowing through tokens, without any effort put into training employees how to use the tools better, deserve to fail.