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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated (www.404media.co)
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Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

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[–] 45 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My company is doing this too. Measuring this and PR counts.

What’s it about technical leadership and having no fucking clue how anything works?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t get it. Are they rewarding people for using it more? It’s not really a tool to reward over using more or less. Just seems strange.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think because tokens are the only measure of AI use bean counters have

    Moar tokens = Moar AI Literate

    Even though it’s super fucking easy to burn through tokens and it’s such a garbage metric to begin with.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    The further you get from the front lines the less you have a grasp on day to day operations, especially when the job changes. Double that for leaders that never held technical positions, and come from other areas that guide their view on things.

    Then you have the power imbalance with a hierarchy, if someone is responsible for your job you are more likely to just say "yes" to bad ideas than push back on them. Even when a manager is receptive to feedback that doesn't mean the ICs are going to give the feedback, or they get demoralized when their ideas aren't taken for valid reasons.

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