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The AI industry loves token inflation. Your...

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. The rise of agentic systems, and now projects like OpenClaw, makes that temptation even stronger. Once you give models more autonomy, they do not just consume tokens to answer questions. They consume them to pl
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