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Agentic is such a shitty fucking word to describe how this works that you can tell it was dreamed up by fucking business and marketing idiots.
All of the new "agentic" models talk to themselves and consider it "thinking". It's completely ridiculous. Of course they eat up a lot of tokens, they're fucking chattering with themselves.
There's no way to quantify the amount of "tokens" any given task will take because the "thinking" chatter is verbose and unpredictable as shit. You can send it in a question like "What is happening?" and it burns through a million tokens trying to describe why the latest bash command it tried to run is taking fucking forever because it didn't write the command correctly and it is permanently paused waiting for stdin.
Sounds like it's rife for exploitation. If the AI company's revenue needed a boost this quarter, just send out an update that does a few extra loops of talking to itself.
I see some young dude shilling this on tiktok where he had this claude war room setup that kind of looked like an idle miner game with them all working for him. He supposedly said they were making him more money then they cost him. But then he showed their "work" and it was all them just selling AI art on Etzy, which feels not sustainable and also like such a lazy scam. All I am thinking is how much energy and water it's taking for someone to buy some disappointing AI art from someone they thought was a real person.
I was looking for wall art on Etsy a few months ago but just gave up, the majority of listings are AI slop now.
The business is not selling AI art on Etsy, it's selling courses on how to sell AI art on Etsy.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was paid directly or indirectly by Anthropic for his marketing. It's not like he was selling knowledge, he was just telling everyone to try it.