TLDR Tech / AI
‘Tokenmaxxing' as a weird new trend
Companies are turning token usage into a benchmark for productivity and a competitive measure of who is most AI native. This is causing workers to maximize their prompts, coding sessions, and the number of agents working in parallel to climb internal rankings. This 'tokenmaxxing' behavior is burning massive amounts of tokens for little to no outcome, causing outages due to AI overuse, and producing throwaway, wasteful work. The metric can be easily gamed, and the outcome is just a massive AI bill.
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