Post #2267012
2026-05-08 14:04 UTC
Replies (16)
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@hdv@front-end.social 2026-05-08 15:24
is the industry ok?
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@maarteuh@mastodon.workingweb.nl 2026-05-08 14:05
@hdv@front-end.social only to be changed to using as little tokens as possible compared to your velocity in a year or so
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@ragman@jawns.club 2026-05-08 14:13
@hdv@front-end.social A friend of a friend was told by his manager that he _wasn't allowed_ to write code by hand, his manager wanted him to only use an LLM. Which is mad.
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@damianwalsh@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 14:30
@hdv@front-end.social Deskilling needs improvement
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@fbuontempo@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 15:33
@hdv@front-end.social I was chatting about this the other day and recalled being told years ago I had to achieve 100% CPU usage. *sigh*
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@semanticfire@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 15:49
@hdv@front-end.social no wonder gen-z is interested in non AI workplaces. I had two conversations recently with young people who expressed that they chose a specific profession to not have to interact with AI.
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@_mr_moe@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 16:08
@hdv@front-end.social great idea, i will tell AI to create this script
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@kgf@hachyderm.io 2026-05-08 16:18
@hdv@front-end.social Having worked at a big tech company, I can't help but at least partly read this as yet another excuse to under-compensate employees who deserve promotions but aren't willing to sell their soul and/or play the BS game
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@mrjre@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 17:12
@hdv@front-end.social Utter bullocks. Looking for a new gig, this is on the top of my list to avoid.
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@pcornelissen@nrw.social 2026-05-08 18:02
@hdv@front-end.social Nothing beats a metric you can cheat for financial gain :-D (But what would be a good metric is: fewer tokens used for a task)
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@michelle@front-end.social 2026-05-08 20:53
@hdv@front-end.social I have friends at a very big tech company where that is the case. They are being told “Use AI or lose your jobs”, and also “Use AI so we can train the AI to do your jobs”
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@xfq@w3c.social 2026-05-09 01:42
@hdv@front-end.social it is about as meaningful as promoting engineers by lines of code written.
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@jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au 2026-05-09 20:17
@hdv@front-end.social nit pick: It isn’t “the industry”, it’s not “companies”, either. It’s management. Solely and entirely management.
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@meltedcheese@c.im 2026-05-16 06:26
@hdv@front-end.social It means they have no other metrics to tell them if what they’re doing is on course or not.
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@kumarvibe@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 07:10
@hdv@front-end.social it’s all bonkers right now. At Shopify they will call people out who waste tokens. My theory: token maxing schemes are also a way to set up a future system for *restricting* token usage when that day comes. And, yes, token usage is currently rewarded at Shopify but the problem is they don’t have a better way (yet) to figure out who *isn’t* adopting the actual AI accelerators. Some accelerations you get are undeniable — no one knows what they’re doing but everyone has to at least try 🤷
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@Shadowfetch@indieweb.social 2026-05-22 03:00
@hdv@front-end.social Utter bollocks. As an indie dev paying my own API bills across 27 apps, my entire goal is optimizing prompts to *minimize* token usage. Gamifying API costs for a promo doc is corporate theater at its absolute worst.