- If you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.
- Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com. HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
- Essentially employees will get rewarded for deskilling themselves. (see e.g. arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245) I assume the end-goal is to broadly convert programming into a badly paid low-skill job.
- pretty sure that's how Chili's does it
