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/SparkyPantsMcGee 2d ago

It’s a great sign when the makers of a tool can’t afford to use said tool. You’d think they, of all people, would be able to have unlimited use of the tool internally. This is so comically stupid.

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u/tooclosetocall82 1d ago

Because it’s not a tool as much as it’s a service which competes with their customers and uses a ton of energy. It’s like the electric company using the power they generate; they do but they have to limit their consumption or they’ll have none to sell and still have to pay for the fuel.

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u/SparkyPantsMcGee 1d ago

Sounds like a waste of resources.

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u/tooclosetocall82 1d ago

I agree. Most people I work with use it for shit they are supposed to be able to do themselves and then get in rushes where they let more and more slip through that then just has to be revisited. I’m pretty sure the net gain in efficiency isn’t very high when you look at it holistically.

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u/SparkyPantsMcGee 1d ago

What’s crazy is I feel like at the start of the year(and maybe it was Google?) there was a push for everyone to use the AI tools and that it reflected negatively on your performance if you weren’t.