‘Tokenmaxxing’ your way to a zero-day work week
As firms link AI usage to performance, workers will face a peculiar, self-cannibalising logic
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IF YOU strain your ears enough, you might hear a faint, creaky squeaking on the periphery of your consciousness. That would be the sound of the hamster wheel speeding up at JPMorgan Chase. Either that, or you have tinnitus.
Tinnitus would be only marginally more discomfiting than what awaits white-collar workers as more firms start to peg artificial intelligence usage to employee performance.
In March, Business Insider reported that JPMorgan Chase has begun tracking its engineers through granular dashboards that categorise them as “heavy”, “light” or “non” users of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot. The engineers have ostensibly been given two core objectives – improve their coding performance and use AI to get more done.
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