Tokenmaxxing

The practice of measuring AI adoption by the number of tokens used, which pushes people to run up usage to look productive.

Related

  • Token A unit of text that a model reads and writes in, a whole word or a piece of one, on average about three-quarters of an English word.
  • Cost per task The total cost of completing one task with an AI system, counting every model call, retry and tool call, and ideally the human review time.

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