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Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)
- hootz 5mo agoFinally we can beat the usage metrics goal!
- dtnewman 5mo agoAnd you'll be such a productive engineer!
- dtnewman 5mo agoCreator here. Are you a startup looking to show investors your hefty AI budget? Are you an engineer trying to top the AI token leaderboard? Wanna show your friends how "AI Native" you are? Look no further, I created this for you.
- ehxor 5mo agoHey you invalidated my start-up idea! ;) https://robintoken.dev/ https://robintoken.dev/
- rtgfhyuj 5mo agois this satire?
- ehxor 5mo agoYes
- throwburn202605 5mo agoIf the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort. Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open crawl, so open sourced models (open training not just weights) could use it as input.
- fcpguru 5mo agoyou laugh but this is so real. executives love metrics. I do feel like I need to keep the prompts going.
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- photonair 5mo agoToken-maxxing is a silly idea that does not measure true productivity and quality. I can easily burn through tokens and not produce anything useful.
- Sharlin 5mo agoNever would I ever have imagined a world where companies are going all in on the idea of measuring productivity by how much an employee is able to spend company money. Try to explain this to a time traveler from 2020. What a time to be alive.
- gblargg 5mo agoAn update to the mouse jiggler.
- cube00 5mo agoToken measured productivity is the KLOC of the AI world https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225814
- erelong 5mo agolabor theory of value: AI edition
- throwatdem12311 5mo agoAbsolutely incredible, gonna kee this on my back burner for when my boss inevitably gets the tokenmaxxing mind virus.
- lbrito 5mo agoBeautiful
- boundless88 5mo agoThis idea is really innovative and interesting.
- random__duck 5mo agoMarketing material includes legendary promises such as: > Burning token like there's no context window.
- kevinh456 5mo agoBurn baby burn. Token inferno.
- krschn 5mo agoIt’s a strange time ,some people are trying to save tokens to reduce costs, while in other places, employees are intentionally burning more tokens for performance evaluations.
- wewewedxfgdf 5mo agoShould be making pelicans in hats riding unicorns.
- localhoster 5mo agoOk so in all honesty I have it a try. I think you are burning "input tokens" rather than output ones, which fill your usage quicker. Suggestion to improve? :praying_hands:
- usplusAI 5mo agoI can do this with KiloCode and actually generate stuff. I burned 680 M tokens last weekend building over a 48 hr period on KiloCode with Grok Code First(free until 15th). Once I uploaded into replit, there was a lot of stubs lets just say and truncated code and things to clean. But it built something and did a hefty token burn in the process.
- singular_atomic 5mo agowhat did you end up building?
- filmpalace 5mo agoThis is one of the funniest things I've seen on HN. This is actually becoming useful where I work haha :) I think your next natural move should be to make a who-burned-it-baby version for management to audit and figure out who's been burning tokens and ironically use a ton of tokens to do that :D
- wolvoleo 5mo agoLike I just said in another thread, all this reminds me so much of that scene in Mr. Robot where they make a CIO set millions of dollars on fire. Sometimes I feel like the leadership doesn't even know what they're at. They just want to show "We're an AI company", whatever we do with that AI is not relevant. It's frankly ridiculous.
- lynn_lee 5mo agocool :)
- jasonli0226 5mo agoFinally, a proper way to turn company money into visible "productivity"...
- TurdF3rguson 5mo agoIf anyone out there needs to burn some tokens, just DM me your keys. I got you.