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What's really happening inside your AI costs when Jensen Hwang says engineers will spend $250,000 a year on tokens?
The common story is that frontier models are expensive — but the reality is that your habits cost more than the models ever will, and most users burn 8-10x what they need to.
In this video, I share the inside scoop on token efficiency before Mythos pricing hits:
• Why raw PDFs can turn 4,500 words into 100,000 tokens
• How conversation sprawl compounds waste with every turn
• What plugin overhead costs you before you type a word
• Where model mixing drops a $10 session to $1
Builders who keep burning tokens as a badge of honor will face a reckoning when cutting-edge models cost 10x what Opus costs today — the habits you build now determine whether you scale or stall.
Chapters
00:00 Stop burning tokens and blaming the model
02:30 A real pipeline that costs less than 25 cents per user
04:30 Rookie mistake: document ingestion and PDFs
07:00 Convert to Markdown, always
09:00 Conversation sprawl and context compression
11:30 The plugin and connector tax
14:00 Advanced users have the most expensive mistakes
16:30 The 8-10x cost reduction breakdown
19:00 What Mythos pricing will do to your mistakes
21:00 The stupid button: six questions to audit yourself
23:30 Five commandments for agent token management
26:00 Use your tokens well, not wastefully
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