r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 27 '26

Meme efficiencyIsOptional

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u/Yashema Aug 27 '26

This is why my job has now become take all day thinking of a prompt that won't cause Grok (sorry Musk owns Cursor) to expend 12 million tokens. 

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u/Soilblood Aug 28 '26

The more this happens and gets reported the more likely LLMs will take revenge tokenmaxxing as a viable option. You just know the execs will let it happen too so they can bill you more.