🧵“Surrogation is a psychological phenomenon found in business practices whereby a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace that construct.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogation
Surrogation - Wikipedia

Tokenmaxxing is the “hit your cheek bones with a hammer” of engineering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html

More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.

At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.

The New York Times