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A comment on Ask HN: Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing?.

Re:Ask HN: Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing? by thom-gtdp on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:44AM (#47933103)
Before LLM some companies were measuring developers performance based on the number of commits (regardless of quality). Not surprising now companies are measuring performance using token usage
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Re:Ask HN: Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing? by dgellow on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:51AM (#47935449)
But I can see a loose link between commit count and productivity (obviously a flawed metric). There isn’t such a link between token count and productivity. Like, I can burn millions of tokens with literally nothing to show, not even commits
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