Comment by simonw
2 hours ago
Yeah, tokenmaxxing was obviously stupid. Setting a limit is what happens when the adults in the room stop being stupid.
2 hours ago
Yeah, tokenmaxxing was obviously stupid. Setting a limit is what happens when the adults in the room stop being stupid.
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
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.