Comment by loki-ai
14 hours ago
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).