Burning tokens

Is your company using AI because your boss heard that every company needs to be "AI native"?

Have you been told you'll be measured on token usage?

Are people at your company "burning tokens" just to prove they are using AI?

A Hacker News comment describing a company dashboard that tracks AI token usage: usage jumped 100-200% the day it was announced with no increase in output, and an engineer asked to delay a ticket so they wouldn't burn through their monthly token budget too early. — A Hacker News comment on a thread about forced AI adoption. Read the whole thing.

Does "Management wants AI adoption whether or not it actually improves anything" hit a little too close to home?

Do you want to tell your boss that this is completely backwards, but would also like to remain employed?

Good news: you can let my book do it for you.

Buy your boss a copy of The Problem-First Method.

It makes the radical argument that you should understand the problem before throwing technology, features, or millions of AI tokens at it. Crazy, right?

Your boss might learn something. You might get bonus points for buying them a thoughtful gift.

And if nothing changes, at least you'll have plausible deniability.

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