{"id":3343,"date":"2026-06-01T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:56:55","slug":"token-maxxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/06\/01\/token-maxxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Token maxxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3343 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/06\/01\/token-maxxing\/token-based-performance\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/token-based-performance-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/06\/01\/token-maxxing\/token-burn-solution\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/token-burn-solution-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Image 1 shows an AI management problem. Image 2 is a solution: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Token_maxxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">token maxxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When employees are judged purely by a number, they will optimize for the number, even if it burns the business down around them. On the other hand, businesses often measure only what&#8217;s easy to put on a spreadsheet and assume that everything else follows suit (or doesn&#8217;t matter).<\/p>\n<p>This contradiction looks like a perfect example of a perverse incentive combined with the streetlight effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ClaudeAI\/comments\/1tob45x\/company_gave_us_all_unlimited_claude_code_sonnet\/\">Reddit thread<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Ordinath\/tokenburn\">TokenBurn on GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image 1 shows an AI management problem. Image 2 is a solution: token maxxing. When employees are judged purely by a number, they will optimize for the number, even if it burns the business down around them. On the other hand, businesses often measure only what&#8217;s easy to put on a spreadsheet and assume that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}