2026 saw the rise, and quick fall, of tokenmaxxing, the practice of enterprise companies essentially prioritizing AI spend volume as a yardstick for productivity. This summer, Microsoft put every division on an AI token budget and told engineers that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for.” Now, in its Oct. 7 announcements, it offered…
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