In Defense of Tokenmaxxing
NLW argues that the backlash to tokenmaxxing misses the bigger enterprise AI shift. Token leaderboards can create bad incentives, but companies still need aggressive experimentation as work moves from assisted AI to agentic AI. Many “wasted” tokens are really the cost of learning, and organizations willing to burn…
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