Engineering video
0:35 · 5 October 2026
Companies are moving away from maximum token consumption toward token efficiency due to rising AI costs, leading senior engineers to design token-efficient code bases called zero token architectures.
Hear it at 0:00 →not only that, but what we are seeing is that the focus now, it's on token efficiency. So until I think mid of this year, it was all about, okay, let's adopt the AI, add it everywhere, spend as many tokens as you can, token Max. But now companies realize, hey, it takes time to build valuable stuff, it takes time for us to monetize this, but our costs increased. Now we spend on the people and on AI.
So what they're doing is, okay, let's talk to our senior engineers and see how do we spend our tokens, how do we design the code base, how do we design a token efficient code base, and we call that a zero token architecture.
