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Re:Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea by csoham on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:04AM (#48460595)
Cool stuff! I suspect we will now see a bunch of startups coming up focused on helping companies reduce their AI usage, similar to how we have companies focused on optimizing cloud costs.
Re:Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea by robmay on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:05AM (#48460614)
Definitely - when you consider how varied inference workloads will be, and the different ways to minimize costs - better prompting, SLMs, different chips, batching, etc, there will be tons of opportunity
Re:Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea by chris_money202 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:55AM (#48460501)
Think it’s only right to disclose how many tokens were used in the creation of this website
Re:Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea by robmay on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:01AM (#48460565)
Best HN comment in a long time.