I wonder these days. How did we ever write software without AI? I mean, I know we did. It was possible. But with AI it’s like wearing roller skates and a rocket pack. Naturally, we want to encourage developers to embrace this wondrous power.
But just as naturally, our industry has found a way to convolute the whole thing. Instead of a sensible game plan, we have a blanket metric that, by embracing raw token usage as a measure of excellence, gamifies AI use in the worst possible way.
Welcome to the bewildering world of tokenmaxxing.
Worse than lines of code
The more lines of code (LOC) you write, the more productive you are as a coder. Right?
