Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...
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OPINION It is too early to call peak 2026, but if we allow midterms, it's hard to beat Caveman. Caveman is a Claude Code skill that strips away non-essential linguistic components of the AI's output, making it communicate in a parody of a coding Neanderthal. Yes, this is a good way to use the products of an industry expected to spend a trillion dollars on capex this year. Ug fix API. Hyperscalers issue debt.
Token minimization has been a set of techniques of interest for a while, something that's good to know yet a lot of faff if nobody's counting the cost. Well, they're counting it now, and Caveman is merely the latest and most surreal consequence.
There are parallels with the changing importance of data compression in storage and transmission as the cost, capabilities, and demands on disks, networks, and memory evolved, and...
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