Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing

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Aug 11, 202600:29:52Technology

Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without a h...

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