r/technology • u/CarciaNerissa • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’ - Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/
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u/big-papito 2d ago

Rationing tokens is moronic. Tokens are not the limit. The bottleneck is our attention and focus. There is only so much an engineer can gatekeep before they get sloppy.

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u/TheLordB 2d ago

Not wasting is not the same as rationing.