Post #1476502

2026-04-21 01:10 UTC

>Banafa says he urges his students to use AI. > >“Don’t be left behind. I mean, if you see any kind of new tools in AI, any new projects by the big name, by OpenAI or Google, go and learn it. Get certifications, take classes that would make you in the front of the line when it comes to hiring,” he said. You can smell the misguided desperation from the person quoted through the screen. They're laying off 10% of the workforce and simultaneously rewarding employees who waste as many AI resources as possible, including [the one employee who burned $1.4 million in tokens in one month](https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/). It's a contest in tech right now who can signal the hardest that they're "AI-first," and Zuck continues to show his lack of imagination and independent thought by lighting 10% of the company on fire to make the most smoke in a valley already choking on its own smoldering fumes.

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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-04-21 10:26

Even if the whole idea of having employees use AI as much as possible wasn't stupid in and of itself tracking token usage is a terrible way to do it. It's like trying to work out how much work has been done in a warehouse by tracking employees calories, sure the people who've burnt more calories have probably done more work but it's not one to one equivalency. I can mess around with an AI for an hour using thousands of tokens up and produce nothing tangible at the end. If I'm going back and forth trying to get an AI to write a piece of code and that takes me an hour to get a result that I could have written myself in 15 minutes, then I'm not being productive. But I sure as hell used up a lot of tokens.

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@benjirenji@slrpnk.net 2026-04-21 13:12

I have acquaintances at Meta and they literally waste tokens on bullshit tasks. They have like 10 agents running simultaneously doing some elaborate task that takes a long time. You can't tell me this is more productive or efficient than doing actual work. Even if half of these tasks are somewhat useful and related to your project.

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@jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-21 11:48

Damn. I wish I could waste over a million dollars and have my employer see it as a good thing.

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@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 14:25

Yeah the thing that pro-ai zealots don’t get is that if they’re right and AI is the future, then being left behind is ultimately not up to you. The point of AI is to leave workers behind. Embracing it doesn’t do anything to save you, it just accelerates the end of your own job.

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