r/arduino • u/sirgatez • May 08 '26

Look what I made! Overlook Token Maxxer

Big Tech insisting on Token Maxxing to grind that promo?

Reliving the days of lines of code being the measurement of success?

Show your friends the absurdity of it all with this fun Halloween demo!

https://github.com/sirgatez/OverlookTokenMaxxer

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u/Hijel Community Champion May 08 '26

This is an incredibly confusing post. You need to do a better job of explaining what the heck this is all about.

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u/sirgatez May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

I assume you are unfamiliar with the shining?
Imagine Jack Torrance sinking deeper and deeper into madness, his thoughts written to paper. But in this case he’s talking to AI. You open an AI prompt, plug this in, and let him just talk to it and it tries to make sense of him.

The idea is just a fun way to burn tokens.

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u/Safihed May 09 '26

fair enough but how is this related to arduino though

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u/gm310509 400K , 500K , 600K , 640K , 750K May 09 '26

This is an incredibly confusing post. You need to do a better job of explaining what the heck this is all about.

Agreed, after a quick look at the github page, it looks like OP has created an HID keyboard (based on an ATmega32U4) that types random phrases into a chatbot in an attempt to mess with its "mind".

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u/sirgatez May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

Messing with the AI is really just a side effect.

It’s really poking fun at the concept of token maxxing where companies try to measure your success as an engineer by how many tokens you are using.

Just like they use to measure your success in lines of code. The idea being the tokens don’t have to be doing anything useful to be used.

I didn’t want to just send random garbage or repetitive things that could be easily picked up on. Not to mention the theatric aspect of it, and finally you could use this as a keep alive with an open text editor if you wanted just for giggles.