Linear token pricing kills incentives: optimized agents could run at 300k tokens
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-11-07
Argues no agent should need 1M tokens, but linear pricing means harness designers don't care about efficiency. Rationalizing the harness and inference setup could get closer to Codex's 300k tokens, which he attributes to OpenAI owning both sides.
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