The Token Limit Law: Work Expands

dejavucoder · x · 2026-07-15

The author jokingly states that **workload will expand to fill the maximum token limit you allow**, naming this phenomenon "dejavucoder's law." This is a classic AI development meme, meaning that no matter the original size of a task, it will eventually consume all available context window, output length, and token budget.

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