Too real. I got DMed by management recently asking if I was anti-AI because I had the lowest spend on the team as the lead, y'know, the one that has to review all the slop my peers are generating.
I'm sorry. These charades are such a complete waste of time, energy and money. They're some real 21st Century Office Space nonsense.
I recently joked (only slightly) that it's currently possible to get yourself promoted at these orgs using tokens as a productivity proxy by spending your days having Claude OCR dictionary pages.
The concerning corollary of that joke and this management strategy is: when do orgs start offloading reviews to Claude? They're already surveiling a large percentage of peoples' day-to-day and are in a position (or will claim to be) to make a judgement about how those tokens are being used.
Oooooh we just started doing this at my company. There is no target set yet, but management feels it's between 50% and 100%. But people will be evaluated on this!
