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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by recursive on Friday May 15, 2026 @04:31PM (#48153426)
I've lived through a bunch of initiatives about improving planning and estimation. None of them turned into a stable process that worked for anyone. I don't know if I can extrapolate from that, but it gives me an inclination that no one really trusts anything that comes out of task estimation. Which would be why we're looking for more objective metrics like token burn rate. No room for argument - tokens are tokens!
Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by joquarky on Saturday May 16, 2026 @02:29PM (#48162544)
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by promano on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:37AM (#48167698)
A token is approximately word generated by a LLM; a few dozen tokens gets you a line of code... so measuring token burn rate is the same as counting lines of code. All it took was a change of name, and we're back to the most primitive metric we ever got for measuring programmer productivity.

I don't think I can take anything from management in tech seriously again after tokenmaxxing.