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		brianwawok 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Startups brag they spend more money on AI than hum... If they aren’t wasteful it’s a reasonable measure of work. If they spend 18 hours in a traffic circle not so much.

Legend2440 35 days ago [–]

As soon as you quantify something (lines of code, tickets closed, tokens spent, whatever) it starts to be gamed and therefore ceases to be a reasonable measure of work.

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