Tokens are the new "lines of code per engineer". Easy to graph, easy to "manage".
replyThe new TPS reports!
reply...and easier to bill! Back, then noboday had the idea to charge per "lines of code", but today it seems accepted to charge per words processed?
replyMeta does this. Guess what one of the criteria for their recent layoffs was.
replyDo you have any source for this at all? I’ve seen so many different exonerations for Meta’s layoff criteria including claims that engineers using the most AI were laid off because Meta had them build AI tools to replace themselves.
replyEveryone is oddly confident despite all of the conflicting explanations.
Meta tracks token consumption, but has explicitly stated that it is not a primary performance metric. Instead, employees are evaluated on "impact."
replyIndeed, they also said that previous time off for ill health wasn't a reason either.
replybut looking at the number of people who had taken leave, it suggests otherwise.
You can believe whatever conspiracy theories you want, of course, but the most straightforward explanation is that when you lay off X,000 or XX,000 people, some number of them will be on leave.
replyAnything a trash company says they're not doing is an admission of guilt.
replySure, and I have a bridge to sell you. Or alternately refer you to the inevitability of Goodhart's law.
replyI worked at a YC company that was doing this and left last month. I wonder where this all started from, VCs and tech execs are such a monoculture
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