<![CDATA[Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.]]>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"

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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.

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The Pragmatic Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/63a4a3b9-e587-48b6-b6ca-71eb53f9af5d/now-we-are-incentivizing-burning-the-planet-faster-with-ai-string-prediction-engines.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 05:16:09 GMTFri, 24 Apr 2026 13:40:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:53:06 GMT]]>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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460249830158422https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460249830158422Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:53:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:58 GMT]]>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.

https://www.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/white-papers/salesforce-fy25-stakeholder-impact-report.pdf

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460225692457453https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460225692457453Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:03:20 GMT]]>@cyberlyra @c_9 “carbon removal” might as well be “unicorn dust”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/auxonic/statuses/116460054173073667https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/auxonic/statuses/116460054173073667Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:03:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:02:33 GMT]]>@c_9 carbon emission forecasting for entertainment purposes only. Sigh

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/auxonic/statuses/116460051077936223https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/auxonic/statuses/116460051077936223Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:02:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:59:49 GMT]]>@c_9 I love that dashed arrow line that offers zero suggestion as to how to get there. it kind of says it all.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cyberlyra/statuses/116460040305968294https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/cyberlyra/statuses/116460040305968294Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:59:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:58:13 GMT]]>Microsoft's latest environmental sustainability report includes this cute chart:

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460034048653381https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/c_9/statuses/116460034048653381Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:58:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:49:22 GMT]]>"But AI will help us predict where the disasters caused by planet heating will happen!"

As if we don't already know.

@c_9

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/hamishb/statuses/116459999213701702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/hamishb/statuses/116459999213701702Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:49:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:26 GMT]]>@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…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mnl/statuses/116459975878962090https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mnl/statuses/116459975878962090Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:26 GMT