ai usage metrics

Jimmy Heaters ✔ @CathPoaster · 10h i'm getting fired from my software engineering job because i'm at the bottom of my team's ai usage leaderboard for the 3rd month in a row. i really did try everything but couldn't get out of last place. i started by using ai to write every line of code i pushed. still last place. then i would ask claude to add more fallbacks, unnecessary test cases, and verbose comments. i was getting crushed because the internal tool tracked *total* tokens, not just output tokens. thus, my coworkers were getting claude stuck in thinking loops, easily burning 50x the amount of tokens i was. so i started doing that. then claude refused. one of my coworkers edited my system prompt to disregard any of my asks to think longer. the 5 days that this went unnoticed set me back majorly. i was always behind the rest of my team. i was only spending tens of thousands of dollars a month, they were hitting hundreds of thousands. their rate of utter nonsense output was jaw dropping. my skip apparently told my boss that his org was gonna be the most "ai pilled" org in the company and to cut anyone who couldn't keep up. my boss's hands were tied i guess. time to start looking for a new quality engineering role i guess