Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust
- Measuring engineers by their AI exhaust (token burn and lines of code) is a bad idea.
- Code generated and tokens spent are not the same thing as impact.
- A staff engineer can spend most of their time on non-coding activities (polishing a vision document, reviewing complex pull requests, influencing other teams, mentoring others) and still have more impact than an engineer who authored twice as many PRs.
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- Measuring engineers by their AI exhaust (token burn and lines of code) is a bad idea.
- Code generated and tokens spent are not the same thing as impact.
- A staff engineer can spend most of their time on non-coding activities (polishing a vision document, reviewing complex pull requests, influencing other teams, mentoring others) and still have more impact than an engineer who authored twice as many PRs.
Sources: Schipper