More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their AI Use (10 minute read)

'Tokenmaxxing' is a new status game where AI-obsessed workers spend tokens to prove how productive they are. Some companies have employees compete on internal leaderboards that show how many tokens each worker consumes. There are developers spending thousands of dollars a month trying to automate as much of their work as possible. A single full-time agent can spend 700M tokens a week. The leaderboards don't show whether these tokenmaxxers are actually producing anything good, or whether it is all productivity theater.