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Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
A Hacker News discussion of a Business Insider report frames “tokenmaxxing” as the AI-era equivalent of optimizing for lines of code, AWS spend, or hours at a desk: easy to measure, but weakly tied to actual productivity. Commenters generally argue that companies should encourage AI adoption and experimentation, but evaluate teams on useful shipped work, token efficiency, and business impact rather than raw token consumption.
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