Been hearing wild stuff from folks inside big companies lately. Promotions, firings, and perf reviews are getting decided by tokens consumed and skills/MCPs connected. That’s the metric. That’s how they’re deciding who’s “good at AI.” It gets worse. People are literally running loops to burn tokens and look productive. Doing nothing, racking up “usage,” getting rewarded for it. Meanwhile the person actually shipping with 2 skills and 50M tokens looks like a laggard next to the one who burned…