Tokenmaxxing for tumper

Jeg synes, at jeg, samlet set, er blevet 25% mere effektiv med AI-kodeassistance.

Men ude i den verden, hvor fremmøde og synlig aktivitet (helt urimeligt) regnes på linje med opgaveløsning, er de vilde forbrugere af AI.

Kloge Noahs Hvor meget mere software, har vi brug for? har dette fine citat

An entrepreneur at the dinner breathlessly told me and a couple of other attendees that he ordered his employees to “spend their salary in tokens” — that is, to create so much code with Claude Code and Codex that it cost as much as their entire paycheck. I remember asking him: “What are they using all those tokens to create?” I don’t think I got a straight answer; I’m not sure he knew. 

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"Tokenmaxxing

The stuff I'm hearing is just insane. People are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on tokens? Guys, what are you shipping?

I am seeing people fully enraptured by illusions of productivity. They have swarms of agents coordinated by Byzantine Octopus harnesses. They're munging thousands of tokens a second. They're doing all this stuff, churning unfinished marginalia faster than ever before. Spinning their wheels and shipping absolutely jack shit for their customers.

Someone once pointed out that psychedelic drugs give their users the feeling of insight, but not actual insight. You wake up in the morning and you remember you had unlocked the mysteries of the universe, but all you can find are some spirals you scrawled on a notepad. Similarly, some engineers are falling all the way down the rabbit hole to the feeling of productivity, doing Heroic Doses of tokens on their way to True Productivity. Inevitably, they will reach psychosis before enlightenment."

Det bedst eksempel på Tokenmaxxing, jeg indtil videre har set, er Amazon Prime og Paramounts urimeligt grimme, AI-genererede filmplakater.

Nogle gang er det bare tilfældige billeder, næsten fra filmen (se et par eksempler nederst). Andre gange er det variationer over gamle filmplakater. Bare med færre detaljer (fordi folk er svage, nogle af deres skærme er små).

Mit gæt på hvorfor de gør det?

De vil med A/B-tests kunne bevise, at nye plakater, personligt genererede plakater (ud fra glo-historie måske),  genererer lidt flere kliks og timer forbrugt på tjenesten.

Men mere kynisk:  Bullshit jobs,  tokenmaxxing og Innovation signalling (læs om det!) i én stor pærevælling.

Plakaterne til The Hurt Locker, og alle de andre film, er meget pænere end de overflødige mens tids- og tokenmaxxing AI-udgaver.

Steven Snedker - Drupal-ekspert. AI-ekspert. Intelligent og nyttig.

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How much more software do we really need?

Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.

Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com)

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

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