AI agents are predicted to overtake the enterprise, and possibly the internet, but there’s one unnerving challenge that doesn’t get a lot of attention: Paying for the tokens that underlie all the large language models behind AI agents.
“With agents and agentic workloads, they just chew through tokens all day long,” Matt Zeiler, CEO of AI company Clarifai, told The New Stack. “Things like GitHub, Copilot, OpenAI Codex, all these different coding tools now process work asynchronously, and that just means you can fire off ten…








