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The End of Tokenmaxxing: How Lindy's DeepSeek Switch Signaled AI's Great Efficiency Reckoning - July 5, 2026
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The End of Tokenmaxxing: How Lindy's DeepSeek Switch Signaled AI's Great Efficiency Reckoning - July 5, 2026 After two years of "tokenmaxxing," where companies burned as many AI tokens as possible without regard to cost, enterprises have hit a spending wall. The efficiency turn crystallized when AI agent startup Lindy moved its traffic off Anthropic's Claude to the cheaper open weight Chinese model DeepSeek, reporting roughly ninety percent lower inference costs on migrated routes with perfo...