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Your tokenmaxxing is not…

Coder's Rob Whiteley told Ryan that 'tokenmaxxing' is not delivering real value and is triggering Goodhart's Law, where metrics become targets and lose their meaning. Whiteley discussed how release speed and PR merges can measure agentic outcomes with or without human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline.

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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 human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline.

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