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Once something is a key performance indicator it ceases to be an indicator and becomes a goal.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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I mean, what do you expect them to do? Shit’s hard, nobody has any savings. I sure as shit wouldn’t want to lose my job just because management gives everyone some new bullshit metric to be aware of, especially if it can be made a non-issue.
If someone was going to reward me for burning a lot of tokens, I'd feed LLM output into the LLM input until they ran out of rewards.
Stupid (leadership) is as stupid does.
Bad leaders beget bad subordinates
Those who make for the best leaders very rarely want to be leaders.
Sounds like defrauding stockholders...
a.k.a. "business as usual" when the government that's supposed to be policing such behavior had become primarily focused upon doing it themselves.
Goodhart's Law states, "Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
In this case, it wasn't even a good measure to begin with and became a target because of the 💩 brained business idiots that run everything.
Now these companies are racing to see who can throw the most money into the fire to show that they're the most zealous and deferential to the AI cultist management that have taken over all software companies.
According to the article, they received this information verbally or in writing from internal sources, but without being provided with any further evidence. To me, that’s not enough information to take the article seriously.