Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.

Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    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?