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Tech giants building AI-powered coding — but incentive structures are backwards

Tech giants building AI-powered coding — but incentive structures are backwards

Major tech companies including Meta have created internal leaderboards that rank employees by AI token usage, creating perverse incentives where developers are tempted to waste tokens to climb rankings rather than use AI efficiently.

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