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Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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if you don’t know what you’re doing, do it harder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6HnGZInBg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260428-tokenmaxxing-how-much-did-you-spend-in-tokens - podcast

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago

At some point, Anthropic puts up its prices so much the companies try to go back to brain coders. They hand these actual human coders a toxic waste dump of AI slop code that is literally incomprehensible to humans and can’t be fixed in less time than it would take to start over. This does not end well.

Given the slop bots have been actively destroying their users' coding abilities for the past 2-3 years, finding someone capable of unfucking their codebases will be a bit of a challenge.

[-] rook@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

The big tech firms have fired tens of thousands of people, and we’re all heading into an economic catastrophe that will only make more people impoverished or jobless. Finding folk who are so desperate for work that they’ll decontaminate your codebase for minimum wage will be straightforward.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

More than one, or even a couple bits, by orders of magnitude. 🫪

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