At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
I’ve heard meta engineers get judged on metrics like how many comments they made on PRs. So, engineers set up their agents to comment on every new PR. Now every PR in the company has thousands of repetitive comments on it.
Also, to meet this tokemaxxing quota, engineers are setting up their agents to run all night long while they sleep.
I’ve heard meta engineers get judged on metrics like how many comments they made on PRs. So, engineers set up their agents to comment on every new PR. Now every PR in the company has thousands of repetitive comments on it.
Also, to meet this tokemaxxing quota, engineers are setting up their agents to run all night long while they sleep.
I’ve heard hints they sometimes give GPU farms busywork, to meet utilization targets apparently stipulated in sales contracts.