Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.

"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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#LLM #ClimateCrisis

The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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.

^{Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)}