Agentic, agentic, a-d-gentic. (In Russian, ад means hell. Keep that in mind as we go.) Ctrl-b, right We added verification. Our agent spins in a feral loop, checking itself against a thousand linters. The strictest checks are running — checks you don’t even know exist — something like LintLikeAGodIsLookingAtYouStrictly. It is, as far as I can tell, very thorough. I have not read a single line of its output. ...
Continuing the tokenmaxxing theme. Google says 75% of its code is written with AI. Meta says 90%. Uber burned a whole year’s worth of tokens in the first four months of the year. Programmers tokenmaxx. Managers token-flex — about how much their team spends on tokens per month, as if the API invoice were a performance review. Everything’s better with AI Need a status report? AI bot. Monitoring? AI bot. Code review? AI bot. Dashboard? AI bot. Every action a programmer takes, every automation, every cron job that used to be twelve lines of bash — must now go through an AI. Because everything’s better with AI. Obviously. ...
We used to count lines of code, then we’re counting commits, then tasks closed. And now it’s tokens. And if there’s a metric, there’s a way to inflate it. That’s how tokenmaxxing was born. Tokenmaxxing is when a developer maximizes the number of tokens they burn in order to climb the leaderboard. The manager’s leaderboard. The company dashboard, where you light up as “AI activist of the month.” Whatever scoreboard someone decided to wire up to the API bill and mistake for productivity. ...