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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated (www.404media.co)
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Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

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[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, one learned the exact wrong lesson from this, and started measuring lower lines of code produced as better... Which worked for a while, but lead to a lot of weirdness around new features for no particular reason.

Hey boss, I just got that new feature submitted for review. I managed to get it all on a single line of code! No, that one line has like 5000 characters, why do you ask?

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