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.
Use it normally but every time you use it ask it for 20 iterations using different calls.
So you start with your completely legitimate request to the AI. It responds. You then ask it for a variation. You then repeat this request for a variation 20 times afterwards. Write a script to do this so you don’t waste your time doing it manually.
This will increase your requests to the AI by 20 times while also looking like a completely appropriate workflow to have if anyone looks at your logs.