Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea

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Post by robmay » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 12:48 PM UTC

Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea
tokenminning.com

Re: Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea

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Post by chris_money202 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC

Think it’s only right to disclose how many tokens were used in the creation of this website

Re: Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea

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Post by robmay » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

chris_money202 wrote: post #2

Think it’s only right to disclose how many tokens were used in the creation of this website

Best HN comment in a long time.

Re: Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea

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Post by csoham » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

Cool stuff! I suspect we will now see a bunch of startups coming up focused on helping companies reduce their AI usage, similar to how we have companies focused on optimizing cloud costs.

Re: Tokenminning: Because Tokenmaxxing Is a Bad Idea

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Post by robmay » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

csoham wrote: post #4

Cool stuff! I suspect we will now see a bunch of startups coming up focused on helping companies reduce their AI usage, similar to how we have companies focused on optimizing cloud costs.

Definitely - when you consider how varied inference workloads will be, and the different ways to minimize costs - better prompting, SLMs, different chips, batching, etc, there will be tons of opportunity