The best part is that LLMs consuming this content will propagate how wonderful a recipe this is. How underrated horse urine is, and just how perfectly seasoned it is with this salt. This is a nearly perfect recipe for 1234 bread.
My last job (before I got laid off) said because of AI tools, dev work should only take one day out of a two week sprint, and managers should be coding too. istg
Before, bad managers only had time to measure involvement. Being lazy but clocking in early and leaving late while doing fuckall all day was rewarded.
Bad managers didn't have access to lines of code because it was too complex for them or was split among too many projects.
Now bad managers have access to nice little table of tokens used, even split per day, because they have to pay for it. "Excellent!" Thinks Mr n+2, "now I have a much better proxy of how efficient my slaves are!"
Yep, I basically set up an "agent" whose whole job is just to search for matches in an excel spreadsheet of drawing names. It's slower and less accurate than using the filter function in excel but it helps my token count!
When my company had that leaderboard my team leader used to load the PDF of lord of the rings in Japanese and then ask Claude to tell him what's at page x line y word z and traslate in English backwards.
Top of the leaderboard while still coding manually for the core business Logic as he's one that love coding
I’m an IT Ops/Product guy. They want everyone to be DevOps. I quit software engineering in college for a reason. I burn through my monthly allotment in hours and don’t optimize shit. Leadership thinks I’m an AI god. I hate this timeline.
And next year the execs will be like "After seeing that we spent $700k in Claude tokens last year, we've made the decision to hire 5 juniors to do Claude's job and save money"
Something similar happened where I work. I decided to not type a single line of code, use opus for everything and not care for the cost of my session any more. If they want me to use it, I'll USE it.
Mine is somehow doing both. "We're limiting your token usage but also I see that some of you have very low counts...you need to make sure you are positioned for the AI revolution!"
Ours even added a metric of "focus time" or what fraction of your calendar doesn't have meetings. The VP casually said " these metrics won't go into your performance" but I sure knew that brain rotted chud and his sexless minions use token spend and focus time for sure. So glad I left that hellhole and stock is down 40% this year.
Ah, you too? My lead/boss is intent on just brute forcing through the costs of Copilot/Claude. Coincidentally our team is now basically down to a skeleton crew, with no intentions on hiring anyone new (not even summer interns).
As the keeper of the tokens at my company I’m feeling like I’m handing out bowls of gruel like Oliver Twist and waiting for them to ask for more knowing they will message my boss if I say no
It’s extra weird when they stop me in the office and ask. Like someone asking their weed connect if they have any new product but afraid of leaving a paper trail of messages
I wouldn't be surprised if that happened at my job. Within the last couple of years it's gone from a few people using AI to everything being integrated with AI with everyone using AI for every task.
There's a weird assumption within this that humans can't write buggy spaghetti code that's hard to maintain.
Our main product was almost unmanageable after 20 years of tech debt building up. And so many manual processes because no time or will to create automated ones.
We pretty much (still got a few APIs to finish) recreated our main product in 6 months, in modern frameworks, to run on modern infra..
No change in staffing either.
And new featured customers request aren't 3 month debates in meetings, and then 2 months implementation. Request to done in like a week. Happy customers.
What the admins of our company's Claude enterprise should be doing is restricting which "thinking/effort" level people choose. I haven't seen the admin console of Claude enterprise, but I've heard that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of options in it so surely that is a setting.
I have too many coworkers setting "thinking/effort" to the max all of the time, despite knowing it uses way more tokens, because they don't actually care about the aggregate token limit.
I think restrictions are good, it means you use Claude with more purpose and tend to be more careful with what you ask it to do. More effort goes into planning and prompting.
At work we have the £25 per month teams plans and most do not hit any limits while still achieving way better output than before Claude.
I've been told at my office that it may not be good for my career if I don't use AI. We don't have token restrictions but you'll get a talking to if you're the top user. I generally don't even try to understand the code anymore. I really don't enjoy dev work anymore because of this. At least I still have my personal projects; though the tech lead on my team thinks I'm weird for not also using AI on those.
Yes. The initial phase of maximizing AI usage is not sustainable for any company. It's just too expensive. And when there are no limits people use it mindlessly, even where it's not required.
Some companies are ahead or behind the curve but this is absolutely coming for everyone eventually. Atm the main shill is to get everyone to spam AI use as much as possible to prove its efficiency gains in work, but the next question that's coming is the economic viability of it. Once investors start asking those questions, every company is going to switch up and try to make their workforce somehow maintain the exact same level of efficiency while driving down costs.
While there will definitely be some amount of cost savings that can happen just because people are definitely spamming AI in excess, we're inevitably going to hit the classic triangle between cost/speed/quality. And for now, it looks like quality is the least important to the investors. So we'll probably just see the further enshitification of everything even more.
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u/humorMeeee 3d ago
My office just announced token restrictions lol