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A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using

An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …

New York Times Kevin Roose

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  • @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
    One OpenAI employee used 210 billion tokens *last week*. A single Claude Code user spent $150,000 in a month. Meta, Shopify and other companies now factor token use into performance reviews. Are you tokenmaxxing, anon? [image]
  • @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
    Talking to tokenmaxxers for this column gave me a strong suspicion that AI providers are going to be compute-constrained for the foreseeable future. There isn't nearly enough compute in the world for even 1% of white-collar workers to work this way.
  • @davidhiggins David Higgins on bluesky
    I don't know if this is the worst timeline, but it has to be the stupidest.  [embedded post]
  • @krisarmstrong1 Kris Armstrong on bluesky
    Cool.  A new metric I can use to impress leadership.  [embedded post]
  • r/bayarea r on reddit
    More!  More!  More!  Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.