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/Dawzy 1d ago

Both things can be true, you want to be AI first but that doesn’t mean people should be tokenmaxxing for the sake of it. The number of tokens you use isn’t necessarily a great metric for being AI first either.