Parkinson's Law for agents: more budget just means more tokens, not more work
tokenbender · x · 2026-11-01
tokenbender shares an infographic on "Parkinson's Law for agents": the more budget an agent gets, the more tokens it spends — but more tokens ≠ more work done, as the excess goes into elaboration rather than useful work. A caution for anyone building agentic workflows today.
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