Once something is a key performance indicator it ceases to be an indicator and becomes a goal.
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.
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.
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.
