5/15/2026 at 5:20:26 PM
by dtnewman
5/15/2026 at 9:43:51 PM
Never would I ever have imagined a world where companies are going all in on the idea of measuring productivity by how much an employee is able to spend company money. Try to explain this to a time traveler from 2020. What a time to be alive.by Sharlin
5/16/2026 at 8:03:17 AM
An update to the mouse jiggler.by gblargg
5/15/2026 at 6:06:11 PM
Creator here.Are you a startup looking to show investors your hefty AI budget? Are you an engineer trying to top the AI token leaderboard? Wanna show your friends how "AI Native" you are? Look no further, I created this for you.
by dtnewman
5/16/2026 at 12:08:14 AM
Hey you invalidated my start-up idea! ;)by ehxor
5/16/2026 at 9:11:20 AM
If the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort.Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open crawl, so open sourced models (open training not just weights) could use it as input.
by throwburn202605
5/16/2026 at 8:12:49 AM
is this satire?by rtgfhyuj
5/16/2026 at 12:53:56 PM
Yesby ehxor
5/18/2026 at 1:51:38 AM
Finally, a proper way to turn company money into visible "productivity"...by jasonli0226
5/15/2026 at 10:19:52 PM
Absolutely incredible, gonna kee this on my back burner for when my boss inevitably gets the tokenmaxxing mind virus.by throwatdem12311
5/16/2026 at 3:33:04 PM
I can do this with KiloCode and actually generate stuff. I burned 680 M tokens last weekend building over a 48 hr period on KiloCode with Grok Code First(free until 15th). Once I uploaded into replit, there was a lot of stubs lets just say and truncated code and things to clean. But it built something and did a hefty token burn in the process.by usplusAI
5/17/2026 at 4:47:44 AM
what did you end up building?by singular_atomic
5/15/2026 at 9:53:19 PM
Token measured productivity is the KLOC of the AI worldby cube00
5/16/2026 at 4:37:45 AM
It’s a strange time ,some people are trying to save tokens to reduce costs, while in other places, employees are intentionally burning more tokens for performance evaluations.by krschn
5/16/2026 at 4:09:11 PM
This is one of the funniest things I've seen on HN. This is actually becoming useful where I work haha :) I think your next natural move should be to make a who-burned-it-baby version for management to audit and figure out who's been burning tokens and ironically use a ton of tokens to do that :Dby filmpalace
5/15/2026 at 9:34:47 PM
Token-maxxing is a silly idea that does not measure true productivity and quality. I can easily burn through tokens and not produce anything useful.by photonair
5/16/2026 at 12:45:26 AM
Hear hearby hughw
5/15/2026 at 9:38:01 PM
> Token-maxxing is a silly ideaWell I guess you also thing that getting a job promotion is a silly idea? /s
by dtnewman
5/16/2026 at 8:51:14 AM
Ok so in all honesty I have it a try. I think you are burning "input tokens" rather than output ones, which fill your usage quicker.Suggestion to improve? :praying_hands:
by localhoster
5/16/2026 at 10:48:02 PM
Like I just said in another thread, all this reminds me so much of that scene in Mr. Robot where they make a CIO set millions of dollars on fire.Sometimes I feel like the leadership doesn't even know what they're at. They just want to show "We're an AI company", whatever we do with that AI is not relevant. It's frankly ridiculous.
by wolvoleo
5/16/2026 at 3:07:30 AM
Marketing material includes legendary promises such as:> Burning token like there's no context window.
by random__duck
5/15/2026 at 5:59:25 PM
Finally we can beat the usage metrics goal!by hootz
5/15/2026 at 7:18:15 PM
And you'll be such a productive engineer!by dtnewman
5/15/2026 at 6:55:01 PM
you laugh but this is so real. executives love metrics. I do feel like I need to keep the prompts going.by fcpguru
5/15/2026 at 10:16:25 PM
labor theory of value: AI editionby erelong
5/16/2026 at 5:13:12 AM
Should be making pelicans in hats riding unicorns.by wewewedxfgdf
5/15/2026 at 11:38:59 PM
This idea is really innovative and interesting.by boundless88
5/16/2026 at 4:31:21 AM
Burn baby burn. Token inferno.by kevinh456
5/15/2026 at 10:38:26 PM
Beautifulby lbrito
5/17/2026 at 1:23:06 PM
cool :)by lynn_lee