Goodhart's law states when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
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Goodhart's law states when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
This describes the phenomenon of companies creating leaderboards of AI token usage leading to tech workers racking up thousands of dollars in monthly spend on AI services to compete.
This is a temporary phenomenon that won’t last long. It’s like having a leaderboard of customers called for sales people. It might have been correlated with business value but is useless as a target.
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Goodhart's law states when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
This describes the phenomenon of companies creating leaderboards of AI token usage leading to tech workers racking up thousands of dollars in monthly spend on AI services to compete.
This is a temporary phenomenon that won’t last long. It’s like having a leaderboard of customers called for sales people. It might have been correlated with business value but is useless as a target.
@carnage4life even by pointy haired manager standards, this is egregiously bad.. reminds me of measuring programmer productivity by "lines of code"