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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend (opens in new tab)

Covered by 9 sources See all sources covering this story including Kilo Blog, Stack Overflow BlogDiscussed on Hacker News

At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

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