Romeu Moura1d ago
People are using « tokens used » as productivity metric ?! « Tokens used »?!?!? That’s like, the first time « lines of code created » gets beaten for the « worst metric of software engineering » 🫠
Show threadIsaac Ji Kuo

@romeu I asked LLM AI to tell me what productivity metric we should use and it told me LLM AI tokens used.

I also asked my coke dealer what productivity metric we should use and he told me grams of coke used.

I don't trust my coke dealer but I sure do absolutely trust my LLM AI.

Apr 13 at 1:56pmWeb
Show threadDaniel McLaury1d ago
@isaackuo @romeu Actually he may have a point.
Show threadGraham1d ago

@isaackuo @romeu For fun I actually asked an LLM if token usage is a good metric for developer productivity.

Even LLMs say it’s a bad metric 🤣