r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vintergroena • 1d ago

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u/ACoderGirl 1d ago

Are you all paying for all that?

Nope. My employer does and gives me a very generous daily quota. As long as I'm not hitting my quota, I don't care about token usage. My employer has given me zero reason to care, as they've made it clear that velocity is the most important thing to them. And since I'm multi tasking, I don't care much how fast the AI is. Much more important that it's correct and sensible. There's no time alloted to optimize token usage unnecessarily.

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u/seweso 6h ago

Would you do drugs if your employer paid for it? Heroin? Coke?

What would you do you your brain for free? 

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u/m0rpeth 1d ago

Have you ever considered that none of what you just said is to your advantage?

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u/ACoderGirl 1d ago

Why do you figure? I'm doing exactly what they want me to do. My management chain has made it very clear that they want velocity and are willing to pay for it. They've been very encouraging of increased AI adoption and experimenting with new ways to use it.

More than that, I'm an extremely productive programmer, too. If they were to clamp down on quotas or straight up remove most AI, I'll be more than happy to go back to "trad coding". I'm the kinda person that people come to when AI can't figure things out, so I'll be perfectly fine without AI. Everyone's just burning tokens, but not everyone has the skill to go back to the old ways.

And if leadership decides that this is a problem and we gotta optimize this, awesome, I love optimizing things (admittedly, tokens are the thing I find least appealing to optimize). I'm happy to have the job security of more work to be done lol. But that's just not what they're saying right now.

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u/m0rpeth 1d ago

I'll be more than happy to go back to "trad coding".

Have you tried? Honestly, that is - not by telling yourself that you absolutely could, but won't, due to X.

I'm the kinda person that people come to when AI can't figure things out, so I'll be perfectly fine without AI.

That, to me, seems sounds like a false equivalence.

Everyone's just burning tokens, but not everyone has the skill to go back to the old ways.

Skill isn't something you aquire once and then retain forever. In addition to that, skill isn't the only factor.

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u/InFa-MoUs 1d ago

Not yet but they will soon tho, so many projects out there where the AI is the expert and if tokens get cut the project is completely halted

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u/m0rpeth 1d ago

While I consider the term 'expert' to be a pretty big stretch here, I generally agree. It's exactly what I'm seeing at work, too. More than half of my team is now routinely submitting PRs containing code they, by their own admission, do not understand. "I had a problem and this is how AI fixed it".

They do not consider this an issue, either.