In Defense of Tokenmaxxing
The episode defends 'token maxing'—the practice of incentivizing employees to use large volumes of AI tokens—as a necessary form of experimentation during the transition from assisted AI to agentic AI, arguing that short-term token consumption is a rational investment in long-term capabil
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