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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by bonesss on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:34PM (#48152139)
That’s the part I don’t get: Engineers are smart enough to ask an LLM to ask other LLMs to ask other LLMs to load the policy manual then count the R’s in “LLM fork bomb”.

Additional story points completed per week, versus token-dollar spent, or some such combo would seem more sane.

But maybe they aren’t really tracking productivity, so tracking tokens is all they have? … I dunno which part of that is dumber.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by idle_zealot on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:35PM (#48152854)
We never figured out how to track productivity anyway. Only macro-level success in achieving measurable goals. Any AI metric besides "are similar goals being met more quickly" is people encouraging specific behaviors decided a priori.
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