alt Hacker NewsKind of surprising. I had interpreted these tokenmaxxing initiatives at some of the larger companies as R&D investment, motivating employees to find the useful applications of a new technology with fairly broad applicability. Obviously some people gamed it, but I wonder if everyone gamed it or if opening the floodgates made for any useful discoveries.
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rescbr • yesterday at 5:52 PM
Day 2 Amazon only cares about the KPI.
Innovation does not grow out of KPIs.
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belval • yesterday at 8:56 PM
You still have near-infinite tokens, you just don't get awards for using a lot.
If any useful optimizations were discovered I imagine they belonged to people at the bottom of the leaderboards and hence weren't noticed by tokenmaxxing chad execs too dumb to have an ounce of creative thinking.