alt Hacker NewsSeems to be a clear case of Goodhart's Law that states that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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traderj0e • today at 8:15 PM
"When a measure exists, it becomes a target" is the reason I can never write TODO again.
That's true, but I don't know if this one was ever a good measure in the first place.
People use AI differently and they can be equally productive with a variety of token usage quantities.
Also, different kinds of work are differently amenable to using AI.