07/10/2026
Over 21 million tokens before 8am is either peak founder energy or a cry for help.
Token maxing is getting out of hand.
One minute you're testing a tiny automation.
The next, you've got agents talking to agents, logs that read like a sci-fi novel, and an API bill that deserves its own investor update.
AI makes building feel cheap until your experiments start behaving like a cloud infrastructure department with no adult supervision.
Still worth it? Annoyingly, yes.
Because every expensive morning teaches you what to cache, what to batch, what to cut, and which “quick test” needs a seatbelt.
If you're building with AI right now, what's your most painful API bill lesson so far?