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.
Not sure this fully qualifies as a perverse incentive or malicious compliance, but it tickles my schadenfreude sense all the same
Fuck y’all, I’m Tolkienmaxxing.
picks up a copy of The Silmarillion and starts reading
That’s how I read it first and was confused!
*Cue They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard* 😎🥳🤘
Yeah I can see the temptation. Ai usage is part of my kpis and is the one place I got dinged on my review. I thought i was insulated as a “partly coding” position, but they put me against full time coders so I look even worse
I guess they’re trying to force change, make us figure out how to make it work. The skeptic in me thinks it rewards people who have time to screw around, but when I set aside a week to see what I can do, I did increase my ai use.
I did find some useful tasks that also increase my “agentic” score! But my “quality” score (ai generated lines I accept) is stick at zero. We currently pay a flat fee but that’s changing next months to pay per token
I need to start doing this… I think I recently got flagged for not using AI enough…
Ugh why does everything need to be “____maxxing”?
I’m sick of it too. From now on I’m going to max as little as possible. I’m calling it minmaxxing and no, it has nothing to do with RPG character stats.
Maxmaxxing
what have you not taken the max pill? are you a lame little maxcel?
Don’t want to start maxx-gate
Or armaxxgeddon
IKR minning is where it’s at.
At least luddites broke the machines in their protest.
Feeding machines to get a pat on the head from the bosses is seriously fucked.
I guess anyone working for ‘meta’ was already a cunt to start with though.
Feeding machines to get a pat on the head from the bosses is seriously fucked.
If the tokens are the company’s property and not yours, I guess it’s no different from paying for things with play money. (Or maybe the fake money they burn for the dead in China would be a better analogy.)
Most people have learned by now, that “lines of code“ is a terrible metric for evaluating productivity. Why are we doing the exact same thing with AI tokens now?
Because middle manglement has a constant compulsive need to justify their existence by finding new ways and metrics to “manage”.
I’m no developer, just so some casual scripting for my job, but lines of code being a performance metric is a hilarious notion. Like, the indicator of good code is that it’s efficiently written in a small number of lines. It’s similarly just as easy to waste tokens on nothing of value.
All this time I assumed destroying the world was just an easily dismissed, unfortunate consequence, turns out it’s their main objective after all.
AI going from ‘It’ll make everything so much more efficient!’ to deliberately doing everything as inneficiently as possible is just… idk beyond even satire at this point.
Desperate corpos do desperate things
Not surprising at all. Every worker everywhere does this if they have some sort of ‘tokens’ they need to consume. Helpdesk ticket count is one pretty common with IT-folks and it’s easy enough to boost if you just write one from every single small thing you’ve done for the day.
None of these obviously are beneficial for the actual work getting done, but as the game is ‘make KPI numbers look good’ then that’s exactly what gets done.
Exactly. I’m not helpdesk anymore, thank god, but my team still has a ton of day to day work that’s tracked in the ticketing system.
Well, for years I’ve been stuck in project hell, doing work that isn’t easily fit into the ticket system. My last review my boss said I had only closed about 1/3 of the tickets of the next lowest person on my team, and that it doesn’t matter except we have a new exec watching that shit, so I have to make it look better.
So the next project I got, I chose to do something manually that I could have automated, that required the help desk to open tickets direct to me about 2-4 times a day whenever someone new needed access to the system I was setting up, until the project was done.
A week in I automated the “manual” task anyway and had a bunch of tickets I could close with a copy-pasted resolution.
I would feel bad, but my co-workers game the metrics even worse than I do.
maxxing
It’s ‘maxing’. It’s like ‘faxing’, ‘taxing’, or ‘relaxing’. Here’s your tree.
It’s a trend, just like fidget spinners. Don’t worry, it will eventually go away.
He was just x-maxxxing.
Someone isn‘t relax maxxing.
They’re not maxing any sense.
Am doing something related at work as we got the directive to actively use AI, so I might as well use the best model available, which happens to be very expensive. It’s also not so smart for our work so I have to kick it multiple times… What can I do, it’s part of my performance objectives now.
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