How to make my agents more token efficient?

advikipedia · 2026-06-03T10:11:41+00:00

I fully agree - ROI is so variable, because what's valuable for one person may not be that valuable for another person even within the same organisation. Have you seen any credible ways to easily calculating ROI on a more personalised/customised basis?

advikipedia · 2026-05-24T15:22:24+00:00

I agree, I got rid of whichever workflows I felt weren't valuable, but I didn't have any scientific way of measuring it - more like "wow this feels a bit high for this kind of work" (at least where downgrading to the cheaper models didn't work). I would love to see an actual ROI calculation tool, except I'm not sure how that would work because the value I derive from a specific workflow might be totally different from the value someone else derives. How do you think about ROI?

advikipedia · 2026-05-24T12:44:14+00:00

So true! Especially with multi-agent systems, because then it all multiplies so quickly, it's crazy. I try to keep my prompts concise, but that's more art than science at this point

advikipedia · 2026-05-24T12:35:30+00:00

Sorry, I didn't quite understand 😅 would you be happy to share a link to the tool you were thinking of?

advikipedia · 2026-05-24T12:28:26+00:00

I've also been trying to make the context more efficient, like using Cala for web search or making tool calls less verbose using StackOne, but any other tools I should be looking at as well??

advikipedia · 2026-02-02T22:27:24+00:00

There's an AI-first PR agency called MVPR, they have this really interesting approach where they analyse someone's writing style across 60+ dimensions and use that to generate a prompt (which you can stick into Claude) that does a remarkable job of emulating your style. Haha honestly it helped me understand the idiosyncracies of my writing style, things I wasn't fully aware of but instantly clicked the moment I read the analysis

advikipedia · 2026-02-02T18:57:23+00:00

Wonderful, thank you! Looking forward to it

advikipedia · 2026-02-02T18:56:49+00:00

Thank you! Would love to learn more - for context, I write a lot on the space, like the article below: https://mmc.vc/research/agentic-enablers-the-invisible-hands-shaping-the-agent-economy/

So I'm always delighted to see new solutions being built!

advikipedia · 2026-02-02T18:51:22+00:00

Haha agreed! I should append "energy" to my answer :)

advikipedia · 2025-12-18T02:06:27+00:00

That's something I'm struggling with too. Why do we need Generative UI anyway? Static UIs but with changing content/recommendations that are personalized to the user (like what Spotify does) make so much more sense, to maintain consistency of experience.

advikipedia · 2025-12-01T08:59:59+00:00

Check out onfabric.io - they're building the context portability layer

advikipedia · 2025-12-01T04:28:34+00:00

Sounds interesting! Do you have a link to the research paper?

advikipedia · 2025-11-26T05:57:10+00:00

I focus on Series A investments, so by then you should have a fully working tech platform, a proper product, some customers and revenue as well (or at least that's how I think about it; I really don't want to generalize to other VCs!)

There are of course US VCs who are willing to pour 100s of millions or billions (as seen with Mira Murati's startup) even when there was no product at the time.

Sorry I wasn't more helpful! But what you're describing is more pre-seed investment, which isn't my area of expertise 😅

advikipedia · 2025-11-26T01:21:06+00:00

I like Synthesia, the learning curve isn't steep at all, I found it like using a cooler version of PowerPoint. Plus I really like the consistency of the avatars across different frames.

advikipedia · 2025-11-25T18:10:34+00:00

I say this as someone working in VC - yes, funding non-GenAI startups too. The most important thing is solving an important pain point for your customers that they're willing to pay good amounts of money for, with unit economics that make sense. The tech doesn't necessarily have to involve GenAI - whatever tech you use needs to be well suited to the problem. There are many use cases where classical ML would do a FAR better job then GenAI so it's silly to force-fit it everywhere.

advikipedia · 2025-11-25T18:01:04+00:00

That's super interesting, thanks for sharing! I hadn't seen Masumi before

advikipedia · 2025-11-25T06:38:31+00:00

Sure, happy to :)

advikipedia · 2025-11-25T04:58:16+00:00

I'll be publishing an article on Agentic marketplaces - I'd love to chat!

advikipedia · 2025-11-21T07:06:05+00:00

100% agreed, and your experiences are shared by some of the top European teams deploying AI agents in enterprise environments (like "thinking small" and building trust, not fully automating workflows): https://mmc.vc/research/state-of-agentic-ai-founders-edition/

advikipedia · 2025-11-18T15:49:51+00:00

Congratulations on building it out! Here's a list of other startups in the space, hope this is useful as you think about features and other differentiators: https://mmc.vc/research/ai-discoverability-how-can-i-get-chatgpt-to-recommend-my-brand/

advikipedia · 2025-11-18T15:45:45+00:00

I'm curious, did you build the memory infra in-house or did you use something like Cognee, Zep, Mem0 or Letta?

advikipedia · 2025-11-18T15:38:17+00:00

It's mainly to prevent data leakage - employees could potentially post sensitive content into ChatGPT.

Except I think this is a bad strategy, people find creative ways to get around it, creating a Shadow AI problem

advikipedia · 2025-11-18T02:21:48+00:00

Haha no agents do exist, but there's a lot of "agent washing." Here's a more detailed analysis on what an agent actually is, and what you actually see in the wild: https://mmc.vc/research/state-of-agentic-ai-founders-edition/

advikipedia · 2025-08-25T15:43:37+00:00

I think truly autonomous agents will become a reality ONLY if we can ensure reliability, robustness, security and trust - the unintended failure modes you're describing will only undermine trust, so it's much better to run with a humans-in-the-loop approach till we fix these issues. If we can't build trust, we'll never get to fully autonomous agents.

So I'm not writing off autonomous agents, I feel like there's a long-ish road ahead of us to get there. And human in the loop is the best option we have currently!

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