Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble

Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble by triceratops on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:50PM (#50457701)

That's how arms races work though. Everyone spends a ton of money to end up no further ahead compared to their rivals and peers.

"The share price will tank if we're not seen as AI-forward" is a legitimate fear for many CEOs. It's the only logical explanation for tokenmaxxing and other behavior that only makes sense from a game theoretical perspective.

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Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble by wood_spirit on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:59PM (#50457845)

Tokenmaxxing was the management buying the marketing that AGI was here and if employees would only use AI they would herald their own replacement?

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Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble by triceratops on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:06PM (#50457951)

If that were true then management could've spent some time coming up with better metrics than "tokens burned". They could just halve deadlines for every project, as an extreme example.

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Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble by 2muchcoffeeman on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:16PM (#50458791)

I thought tokenmaxxing was their proxy for this: more tokens burnt = more productivity = more projects completed.

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Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble by rightbyte on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:08AM (#50464792)

You seem to assume competence here?

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