The Traffic Cop Era of AI: Falling Token Prices, Smarter Routing, and Agents That Misbehave
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The Traffic Cop Era of AI: Falling Token Prices, Smarter Routing, and Agents That Misbehave There's a number floating around this week that I keep coming back to: $0.9665. That's the effective price of one million LLM tokens on August 31, according to Silicon Data's Token Expenditure Index — down f…
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- 2026-09-05 22:57 · DEV Community — AI
The Traffic Cop Era of AI: Falling Token Prices, Smarter Routing, and Agents That Misbehave