
what did i say: tokenmaxxing is misguided, productive-tokenmaxxing-per-unit-dollar is the metric to look out for. the tech industry went (and still ongoing) through a phase of virtual signaling to demonstrate who is “ai-native.” three ways the trajectory goes now: first is people might resort to using cheap open models via openrouters of the world, maybe they find open models are good enough for most tasks. second is wrappers might pop up that help anyone using any inference api, especially enterprises, to measure how effective per unit token has been. third is anthropic/oai might themselves institute some kind of features in their inference endpoints that enterprises can use for measurement and control. regardless of any of that, it is likely managers will be measuring effectiveness of token usage by people which might pop up in the performance reviews.
