Comment by loki-ai
13 hours ago
this not making any sense to you is exactly why companies are implementing these caps: you lack the business acumen to understand how financial resources should actually be deployed.
13 hours ago
this not making any sense to you is exactly why companies are implementing these caps: you lack the business acumen to understand how financial resources should actually be deployed.
Please consider rewriting this in a way that does not seem to unnecessarily attack parent. You are not wrong about the incentives, but you may not be right about the execution of the restrictions. I should know. I am living through it.
you're fully correct and I apologize for my tone. similarly to many here, I got hit by the caps and frustrated by how many times coworkers were unintentionally or not burning through these resources.
Claiming you have no idea why the managers had to do this felt to me like avoiding any responsibility
I am the manager in this case and the one who sets the AI policy for my low-8-figure/year product development teams.
Our policy is quite permissive for exactly the reasons I conveyed above. It takes an extremely finely-tuned sense of value and high assurance that you’re on the diminishing return portion of the curve to conclude “SWEs should have this precisely metered amount (rather than zero or ‘as much as they don’t waste’)”
My claiming to have no idea was not an abdication of responsibility but rather a claim that it was likely an error (assuming a non-trivial team size and a business that can continue to grow).