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‘Tokenmaxxing' as a weird new trend
"Tokenmaxxing" is a new trend where employees, motivated by internal leaderboards at companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, maximize their AI token usage, resulting in financial waste, an emphasis on quantity over quality, and system outages. While Meta abolished its leaderboard after media backlash, Shopify successfully implemented a "usage dashboard" with human review and circuit breakers to encourage productive AI use and prevent wasteful burning.
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