Comment by numpad0

I thought that, managers are employees to the corporate too, they're themselves measured and they need proof of work to get paid just like campus janitors.

If a manager or a manager's workforce under it just sat around and ignored AI just because it's stupid and irrelevant and useless, they lose one tool to justify their existence amongst their peers who do not express such views. If they sat around and did their jobs as-before WHILE "investing" on tokenmaxxing, they gain a double dip-able vanity metric like "we spent 12.34 quadrillion tokens last quarter" plus "our new method helped us reduce token count by 10^24 this quarter".

You may call it a fraudulent behavior from a hypothetical shareholder's perspective in this hypothetical scenario, which it is, and call it Goodhart's law scenario too, which it also is, but it's a completely normalized behavior in relative terms. Project Hail Mary is a lighthearted work of fiction.