Rethinking Tokenmaxxing: It's About Input, Not Output

tl;dr: The tokenmaxxing conversation is obsessed with burning tokens on the output side. The real bottleneck — and the real unlock — is on the input side: collecting and feeding your own context to the agent. There’s a lot of talk about “burning tokens” these days. Generate 1T tokens per day. Keep those GPUs humming. Speed up decoding, parallelize subagents, hit your rate limits like a badge of honor. And honestly?...

June 17, 2026 · 3 min · magicalne