Writing
Some are essays, some are shorter. All written to be worth the tokens.
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Human Tokens: The cost of attention
The token bill is itemized to the penny. The engineer hours around it arrive on no invoice at all. Teams are optimizing the wrong line.
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The wrong plank
The most expensive hardware in the building produces the judgment agents can't. It's also the only machine nobody schedules maintenance for.
People are still the point
Tokens, agents, pipelines — a whole new vocabulary, and none of it says who the work is for. The oldest rule in software survives the newest tools.
One doc, four readers
Generation got cheap. The reader's attention didn't. A tabbed RFC format that gives each audience the version they actually need.
Agents review everything, humans review red
Generation got a thousand times cheaper. Verification did not. A risk matrix for spending review attention where it still pays.