The AI industry loves token inflation. Your company shouldn’t

The brute-force model is starting to look less like technological inevitability and more like lazy architecture.

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The AI industry has a quiet addiction problem: It is addicted to tokens. 

Every new generation of agentic AI seems to assume that the answer to complexity is to throw more context at the model, keep longer histories, spawn more calls, loop over more tools, and let the token meter run wild. 

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