Decade-long engineer: AI adoption at work has become a token-burning leaderboard
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-29
An engineer with a decade of experience shares a workplace lesson: some battles can be won, others are pure theater with predetermined outcomes — the skill is knowing which is which. He argues current AI adoption is the latter: management asks 'how much AI are you using,' and arguing that value matters more than volume gets you nowhere. It's a leaderboard battle won by burning tokens. The accompanying image: a 'Museum of Meaningless Metrics' featuring lines of code, story points, PRs — and a new exhibit, tokens spent.
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