alt Hacker NewsIf any company announces that they use token consumption as an employee performance signal, for me that's close to a red flag to stay away from that company.
No company with good engineering leadership should act like this is remotely a good idea.
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You'd be surprised, I know a few devs in very big tech companies, not faang but you definitely know them, and they all have some kind of token leaderboards, a few told their dev "we don't want you to write a single line of code manually anymore", etc.
I assume the execs perspective is something like: if the top 20% of worker produce 80% of the code with LLMs and the company still works then we can get rid of the bottom 80% of devs and save money
I worked at Uber from 2022-2025. The engineering culture was pretty abysmal, so it checks out.
Meta does this. Guess what one of the criteria for their recent layoffs was.
I 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
Tokens are the new "lines of code per engineer". Easy to graph, easy to "manage".