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Reducing Token Burn Rate With A Well-Designed Architecture

Trying to put out the AI token fire - or at least manage it as a controlled burn by using deterministic scripts for gathering inputs and directing agents

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Teri Radichel
Apr 19, 2026
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I’ve been reading how companies have already burned through their AI budget for the year. It’s mid-April. I just spoke at the Computer History Museum on How I use AI for Penetration Testing and part of that talk was a consideration of how the cost of tokens is not sustainable due to lack of ROI. Throwing more hardware at the problem is like throwing gas…

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