Many Tokens Did You Burn Today
The article draws an analogy between burning AI tokens and burning fossil fuels, highlighting the hidden environmental and economic costs of everyday AI interactions.
The article draws an analogy between burning AI tokens and burning fossil fuels, highlighting the hidden environmental and economic costs of everyday AI interactions.
Tracking developer productivity by AI token usage is as flawed as tracking lines of code. The author accidentally topped their employer's leaderboard by wasting tokens on a pointless AI task, warning that such metrics measure activity, not value.