This is what we as consumers should look out for; what the tools built on top of LLMs try to do. Like it's neat that a tool can summon a dozen subagents with various models to churn out tasks, but if the task at hand is trivial then the amount of tokens used for it should be trivial.

We'll see the tools get adjusted over time to use more and more tokens, or at the very least they get optimized to use every paying customer's tokens for whatever period so that they are on the one side thinking they're getting their money's worth, or on the other that they should upgrade to a higher tier plan. Because the companies are investing trillions into thousands of datacenters and if they sit unused it'd have been a waste of money.

(the datacenters won't go unused I'm sure; any unused capacity will end up on a spot market, with cryptocurrency generation as a constant baseline. I'm pretty confident that crypto will make another small resurgence after the AI / datacenter investment bubble pops. This is a random internet comment, not financial advice)