Tokenmaxxing scoreboards, the vegan LLM from before 1931, and 30% of the web is now AI-generated
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Episode Tokenmaxxing scoreboards, the vegan LLM from before 1931, and 30% of the web is now AI-generated
Are you at the top of your company's tokenmaxxing leaderboard yet? This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben explore the controversial trend of "tokenmaxxing" sweeping through tech giants like Meta and Disney, as well as GitHub Copilot's shift to usage-based pricing that signals the end of the cheap AI era. The hosts also break down a terrifying incident where a rogue AI agent wiped out a production database and examine a new "vegan" language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 historical data. Finally, they react to a study revealing that 35% of all new websites are now AI-generated and close out the show with the drunk musings of a senior engineer.
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• An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. • Tokenmaxxing Is The Dumbest Metric In Tech Right Now • Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 • Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated • Flipbook is an infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time. • Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
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- https://newsletter.thelongcommit.com/p/tokenmaxxing-is-the-dumbest-metric
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/
- https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/
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