token economy

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Quantified evidence that token usage has doubled-to-quadrupled in production, shifting context from scarcity to abundance—changing optimization priorities.

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token efficiency 2 multi agent orchestration 2 prompt engineering 1 production reliability gap 1 implicit context design 1 context window management 1 context window as state container 1 agentic workflows 1

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State of AI Engineering | Datadog supports

Quantified evidence that token usage has doubled-to-quadrupled in production, shifting context from scarcity to abundance—changing optimization priorities.

@realmcore_: Models are now trained to dispatch more subagents and shift work away from th... supports

TLDR mentions 'Models may make you spend more tokens,' suggesting delegation patterns have hidden token costs that aren't obvious in naive efficiency calculations.

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