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Meta has built internal leaderboards where 85,000 employees compete for the highest AI token consumption

Five Key Takeaways

  1. Token consumption ≠ productivity (it's compute spend)
  2. Gamification creates gaming (optimizing for wrong metrics)
  3. Forced AI usage creates anxiety and resentment
  4. Lines of code parallel should be a warning
  5. Outcome metrics are harder but necessary

Companies/People Mentioned

Companies:

People:

Key Quote

\"I think a future metric is going to be tokens per employee, and it's going to be one of the most important metrics going forward.\" — Adam Silverman, investor

Counter-argument: Important ≠ good. Lines of code was also once considered important.


Guidance for Tech Leaders

  1. Resist token leaderboards and usage mandates
  2. Invest in understanding which AI applications create value
  3. Pay attention to worker experience and friction


The Core Critique

\"Measuring token consumption as a proxy for productivity is like judging a truck driver by how much gas they burn — it tells you the engine is running, but not whether any freight is actually getting delivered.\"

What's missing:


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