At OpenAI, one engineer processed 210 billion tokens last week. At Anthropic, a user racked up $150K in a month. This is "tokenmaxxing" — using AI as a status signal.

One engineer: "It's becoming a career risk to not use AI at an accelerated pace, regardless of output quality."

The leaderboards don't measure what actually matters.

This + fake AI soldiers, Google's medical retreat, and AI consciousness:
https://digitallyliterate.net/dl-426/