The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend - The Pragmatic Engineer

kept by eddie apr 24

At Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, developers are deliberately burning AI tokens to inflate usage metrics, causing massive waste and prompting Meta to remove its internal leaderboard.

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets - WSJ
Companies are rationing AI use as costs skyrocket, with executives scrambling to track returns and reduce spending after hitting budget limits quickly.
also on Salesforce, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, #business-strategy, #productivity, #ai
Software Is Dead — Long Live Software - by Euclid Ventures
AI will expand the software market rather than kill SaaS, and vertical software with strong data and workflow moats will survive and thrive.
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The Era of Tokenmaxxing
Shopify approaches 100% daily AI tool adoption among employees, with CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex gaining share while IDE-based tools decline, though top percentile token users grow faster than the rest.
also on Shopify, Meta, Cursor, #productivity, #developer-tools
Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol
Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-first protocol to verify web traffic legitimacy without tracking users.
also on Shopify, Microsoft, #ai