Tokenmaxxing is super dumb
It seems that the software developers at Facebook, who are all in on AI-powered coding, came up with a notion they called “Claudeonomics” to measure their all in-ness. This manifested itself as an internal dashboard/scoreboard of who was burning the most tokens with Claude Code. The race was on to see who could burn through the most tokens. Never mind whether this conflagration of Claude tokens was actually producing anything good. The chart merely gave boasting rights to the developer who cranked through the most processing power, declaring leaders as “Token Legend” and “Cache Wizard.” Similar things were going on at Microsoft and Salesforce. This is just the latest chapter in an age-old battle, and it is a really bad idea. Maximum bad Managing software developers is hard enough. There are many reasons why managing developers is hard, but chief among them is that it is difficult (if not impossible) to measure the process of writing software. And that isn’t from a lack of trying. We