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TheBadPlaceAll Content from Business Insider | 'Tokenmaxxing' has techies debating if leaderboards tracking AI token use are a good idea by Henry Chandonnet
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, engineers have a new way to compete amongst each other.
Welcome to the era of "tokenmaxxing."
What is tokenmaxxing?— ben guo ♞ (@0thernet) April 3, 2026
Is tokenmaxxing a good incentive?— chester (@chesterzelaya) April 7, 2026
— Dylan Mitic (@DylanMitic) April 8, 2026
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