Goodhart’s Law states, “Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
In this case, it wasn’t even a good measure to begin with and became a target because of the 💩 brained business idiots that run everything.
Now these companies are racing to see who can throw the most money into the fire to show that they’re the most zealous and deferential to the AI cultist management that have taken over all software companies.
If someone was going to reward me for burning a lot of tokens, I’d feed LLM output into the LLM input until they ran out of rewards.
Sounds like defrauding stockholders…
Stupid (leadership) is as stupid does.
Bad leaders beget bad subordinates
Those who make for the best leaders very rarely want to be leaders.
Once something is a key performance indicator it ceases to be an indicator and becomes a goal.
I mean, what do you expect them to do? Shit’s hard, nobody has any savings. I sure as shit wouldn’t want to lose my job just because management gives everyone some new bullshit metric to be aware of, especially if it can be made a non-issue.
