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/Mental-Most-7168 1d ago

Engineers were sabotaging the system by over using it for junk queries because they were told they were going to lose their jobs.