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Episode 38 · Monday, 20 July 2026 · 61 min

Here's Why Token Maxing Is Bankrupting Companies

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I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Uber blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in four months (and the mystery company that racked up $500M on Claude in a single month by forgetting to set a spending limit), what engineering leaders actually need to do about AI cost governance, and Anthropic filing for IPO at a $965B valuation surpassing OpenAI's last private round and projecting its first quarter of operating profit.

What's the meta this week: 25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering, built across 1,300 agent sessions over 8 months. We cover verification, source of truth, and why interrupting your agent is a first class tool.

If you're building with agents right now, this one's for you.

Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.

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