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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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Yeah I can see the temptation. Ai usage is part of my kpis and is the one place I got dinged on my review. I thought i was insulated as a “partly coding” position, but they put me against full time coders so I look even worse
I guess they’re trying to force change, make us figure out how to make it work. The skeptic in me thinks it rewards people who have time to screw around, but when I set aside a week to see what I can do, I did increase my ai use.
I did find some useful tasks that also increase my “agentic” score! But my “quality” score (ai generated lines I accept) is stick at zero. We currently pay a flat fee but that’s changing next months to pay per token
You are scored on how many ai lines you accept?
Hopefully not. The kpi just states usage.
Looking at the report provided by the ai vendor, there are several measures that might apply. There is also a “quality” measure that seems to be the number of lines accepted. I don’t have any indication that they card about that, but it is there