Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
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Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
"devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
The Pragmatic Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
"devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
The Pragmatic Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
@c_9 bewildering, even as someone who uses ai for coding. I wrote some about it: https://gogogolems.substack.com/p/slowing-down-in-the-age-of-coding
None of it makes sense…
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Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
"devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
The Pragmatic Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
"But AI will help us predict where the disasters caused by planet heating will happen!"
As if we don't already know.
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Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
"devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
The Pragmatic Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Microsoft's latest environmental sustainability report includes this cute chart:
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Microsoft's latest environmental sustainability report includes this cute chart:
@c_9 I love that dashed arrow line that offers zero suggestion as to how to get there. it kind of says it all.
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Microsoft's latest environmental sustainability report includes this cute chart:
@c_9 carbon emission forecasting for entertainment purposes only. Sigh
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@c_9 I love that dashed arrow line that offers zero suggestion as to how to get there. it kind of says it all.
@cyberlyra @c_9 “carbon removal” might as well be “unicorn dust”
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Microsoft's latest environmental sustainability report includes this cute chart:
Salesforce's latest sustainability report includes this cute chart too, which shows they're not even *planning* to lower overall emissions between 2019 and 2031.
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Salesforce's latest sustainability report includes this cute chart too, which shows they're not even *planning* to lower overall emissions between 2019 and 2031.
I can't find anything to be annoyed by in Shopify's latest sustainability report - can you? The clear decrease in energy usage is pretty good to see, but I know it's not the whole story.
https://cdn.shopify.com/static/sustainability/climate-report/2024-Shopify-Climate-Report.pdf
