Using 100x Compute for Tasks to Justify Valuations
gerardsans · x · 2026-08-23
- Masking bad unit economics: Increasing token usage from 1M to 100M makes business metrics look better by creating artificial demand.
- Justifying compute investments: This wasteful usage serves to justify massive compute investments, hiding the inefficiency of the tech stack.
- Industry reality: Many tasks don't need agents at all, yet the industry prefers to over-provision resources to improve the books.
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