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When a measure is used as a metric, it ceases to be a valuable measure.
It's literally a software engineers job to consider and understand functions. If you tell me I'll be judged by the output of a function, I will crack it open to understand what inputs maximize outputs.
I'll burn though however many tokens you want me to. Give me hardware and a blank cheque I'll bring a data center to its knees. I'm guessing your hope was that tokens burn would translate into productivity, but that hope was misplaced and that failure is on you.
But the LLM told the manager it's a great idea, so it must be true
And the only way to prevent this would have been keeping it away from managers eyes.
Only the AI team should have access to that data. Maybe a separate "efficiency" data team can crunch numbers on completed tasks vs tokens.
Never let managers or end users see a chart of token usage. That's just stupid.
This is just going to burn compute even more on LLM crap for no reason. Just burn it all down.