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The Economics of an AI Prompt

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Gennaro Cuofano
Dec 29, 2025
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The AI industry atomic element is the prompt, and the tokens it generates.

And while AI agents are promising us potential autonomy, in reality, even there, they do consume massive amounts of tokens as they learn to prompt themselves to achieve an objective for their human, rather than predict the next token, word, or phrase.

And just like the study of th…

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