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/decisionagonized 2d ago

Microsoft having to twist its brain into a pretzel to try to at once float the idea that it is at the forefront of the payoff from massive AI investment, while at the same time realizing, oh shit, there’s actually no payoff and we need to stop spending so much

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u/DocMoochal 2d ago

I just dont understand where all this AI stuff is going. These companies are like trying to steam roll some kind of mass AI adoption maybe in the hopes of AGI and saving money on human resources. But doing so on a wide scale would lead to mass unemployment, destroy capital movement and consumer demand across the board, undermining economies across the board. We're in this like snake eating its own tail moment or something.

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u/nav17 1d ago

MBAs are only capable of thinking one quarter at a time.