Comment by jayd16
3 hours ago
Well hold on. "They" also thought tokenmaxxing was a good idea, until they didn't.
Whether companies pay will come down to the bottom line once the hype around the country club dies down a bit and for that it's still TBD on the actual product cost impact.
Yeah, tokenmaxxing was obviously stupid. Setting a limit is what happens when the adults in the room stop being stupid.
It's hard to read this take seriously, when you promoted a company spending $1k per engineer per day on LLM usage.
Not sure about that. As I replied elsewhere, it's a forcing function:
> People misunderstand the point of the tokenmaxxing time period, it was to force people to use AI so as to not have them stuck in their way, as some people are, and then to evaluate how it can help the company.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047448#49047826
That is a truly commendable steelman. But let's be honest, there's basically no chance that was true. Management is frequently stupid enough to not think through the second order effects of their policies, and that is likely what happened this time as well.
I expect everyone understood that.
The obvious second effect is that if you have a leaderboard people will compete to top it, by running dumb loops or whatever.
That impacts how much you can learn, and costs you more money than you wanted to spend.