Garry Tan says founders who tokenmaxx on AI agents will be 2 years ahead
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The YC message is to treat inference spend like learning capex—burn tokens now to explore agentic workflows and you buy time-to-insight versus more cautious competitors. If you’re an early-stage founder, the real constraint is not API cost but how fast you can validate which agent patterns actually move a core metric.
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