'Tokenmaxxing' has techies debating if leaderboards tracking AI token use are a good idea

The "tokenmaxxing" trend is stirring up debate among software engineers online about how to best measure AI productivity. Khafizh Amrullah/Getty Images Engineers are debating "tokenmaxxing," or the idea of spending as many AI tokens as possible. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan embraced the term: "We've been tokenmaxxing longer than most people." Others called it an ineffective productivity measure incentivizing wasteful token use or gaming company leaderboards. Forget lines of code written, engi...