I gotta say the best way to get people to get off your ass about AI in the workplace is to use it as wastefully as possible. Blow through tokens like there's no tomorrow. Make agents that make agents that make agents that make agents.

Make it hurt. Malicious compliance and they'll stop. I've seen this at 2 companies now; they want everyone to use as much AI as possible, so everyone starts doing the most ridiculous shit ever with it, and suddenly it's caps instead of quotas. It's "use the cheap models" instead of "use everything." It's a prize for whoever uses the least tokens to do the most work. And then they just stop talking about how much efficiency they're gaining with AI.

AI is expensive as fuck and it's not getting cheaper. Expenses are the only language management speaks so speak their language and make it expensive until they encourage everyone to stop

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Expenses are the only language management speaks so speak their language and make it expensive

lucy-parsons

"...Learn the use of expenses!"

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the fucking thing, these assholes are now monitoring your usage. Wasteful behavior will be punished (using most expensive models for trivial tasks) as much as not using the fucking thing. I think bad prompting the cheap shit often will be most wasteful.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Instead of doing nonsense to waste tokens yourself you can put nonsense in the AGENTS.md and have the whole team waste tokens. @ a bunch of files to add them to the context when they don't need to be. Add instructions to have the LLM do more tool calls, maybe add some verbose flags.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've still never once been reprimanded for using too many tokens but it just makes me feel bad like there goes yet another years worth of electricity.