What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its a big problem
Most AI spending right now is measured in tokens consumed. Jellyfish tracked 12,000 developers across 200 companies and found the heaviest users produced twice the output at 600 times the cost. Uber's internal numbers are even worse: 70% of submitted code was AI-generated, but only 11% of the code running in production was AI-written. So almost all of that AI code never made it into their app. There's a name for what's going on: tokenmaxxing.
This episode goes past the leaderboard stories. The four forces driving token bills up faster than productivity can justify are a pricing model most…
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