At work we will soon be getting access to agentic AI that parses through our gigantic code base and burns through money for very simple requests.
What would be the best way to maliciously comply with the management’s decision for AI usage to be an everyday thing you are expected to do without getting found out?
My idea is spamming the living shit out of the most expensive models for pointless tasks and then insisting that the result is wrong, and work in the meantime. Nobody can complain if my work is still good, but they will notice that the AI budget is not worth it and stop the hype train.
I don’t know where you’re at, but we’re evaluated on the number of tokens we used as part of our performance metrics. Sometimes you gotta roll those tokens to get those numbers up so you’re not part of the next round of layoffs. Management has no ability to understand token usage as long as the prompts vaguely valid.
I am spared from such nonsense. Meeting bullshit quotas is acceptable but I wouldn’t call it sabotage then.