? What is your point? That the OP is obviously finically motived to encourage tokenmaxing?
Here’s what they said, $$$ aside:
> That’s no longer true. We’ve entered a different regime, where spending more tokens generally results in better results. We call this “compounding correctness” — the more tokens you spend on getting a task correct
> Compounding correctness flips the calculus. If more token spend leads to better outcomes, then you’re going to want to spend a lot of time running tokens. Which sure as hell sounds like tokenmaxxing to me! The original incentives to tokenmax are gone, but eventually folks will realize that a new and more powerful incentive has take its place.
> There were ways to get loops to work, but it was hard. You had to think a lot about how to prompt the agent, which in turn required a pretty deep familiarity with how these things work.
> Now, though, it’s easy. Compounding correctness makes it easy
Go on, tell me I’m quoting the OP out of context.
It’s pretty clear this person believes in compounding correctness, while other, more serious people (1) are perhaps more skeptical.
..and Armins company owns pi. You can’t get much more all in on AI.
Compounding correctness sounds cool, but the real examples of people spending lots of tokens are not compounding correctness; they are wide parallel exploration; like Mythos. The OP is confused, and wrong; they’ve made some basic (flawed) assumptions, and based their entire reasoning on them.
Here’s what they said, $$$ aside:
> That’s no longer true. We’ve entered a different regime, where spending more tokens generally results in better results. We call this “compounding correctness” — the more tokens you spend on getting a task correct
> Compounding correctness flips the calculus. If more token spend leads to better outcomes, then you’re going to want to spend a lot of time running tokens. Which sure as hell sounds like tokenmaxxing to me! The original incentives to tokenmax are gone, but eventually folks will realize that a new and more powerful incentive has take its place.
> There were ways to get loops to work, but it was hard. You had to think a lot about how to prompt the agent, which in turn required a pretty deep familiarity with how these things work.
> Now, though, it’s easy. Compounding correctness makes it easy
Go on, tell me I’m quoting the OP out of context.
It’s pretty clear this person believes in compounding correctness, while other, more serious people (1) are perhaps more skeptical.
..and Armins company owns pi. You can’t get much more all in on AI.
Compounding correctness sounds cool, but the real examples of people spending lots of tokens are not compounding correctness; they are wide parallel exploration; like Mythos. The OP is confused, and wrong; they’ve made some basic (flawed) assumptions, and based their entire reasoning on them.
…and are selling AI things. How surprising.
[1] - https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/