Token management is real. I've seen people burn $10 in 2 minutes without realizing it. Here's the framework: → NEVER use your expensive model (Opus) for heartbeat/monitoring. Use Gemini Flash or a cheap local model. That alone can save you hundreds per month. → Use sub-agents for simple tasks. Your main brain should delegate, not do everything itself. → Watch your context size. The bigger the context, the more tokens every single message costs. Keep it lean. → Set up token tracking. Run /status regularly. Know what you're spending. → Don't paste your entire chat history into every prompt. Be surgical with context. Realistic budget: If you're smart about routing, you can run a solid AI agent setup for $100-200/month on API. If you're sloppy, you'll hit $500+ easy. The golden rule: if it makes money, there is no budget. Do more of it. But TRACK what's making money vs what's just cool. Don't trip over dollars to pick up pennies.

So Anthropic announced they built a new model called Claude Mythos and then decided NOT to release it to the public because of safety concerns. First time a major AI lab has done this. And honestly, the ecom community should pay attention to why this matters. Here's the thing. This tells us these models are getting seriously powerful, fast. If a lab is building something they're scared to ship, you can bet the stuff they ARE releasing is already more capable than most sellers are using day to day. Most people in this community are still using AI to write a product bullet or two. The gap between what's possible and what people actually do is massive. For our businesses, the practical takeaway is this: don't wait for the "perfect" model before you build real AI workflows. The tools we have right now, Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, are already good enough to cut your customer service ticket time in half, generate 30 ad creative variations in an hour, and rewrite your entire listing catalog in a weekend. The ceiling keeps moving up but the floor is already high enough to build on. The other thing worth thinking about is trust. Anthropic choosing not to ship something because it wasn't safe yet is actually a signal that they take the reliability of their tools seriously. For sellers running automated review responses, AI-generated ad copy, or supplier negotiation scripts, that matters. You want the company behind your tools to have some standards. Bottom line, the AI race is moving faster than any of us expected. The sellers who win aren't going to be the ones who waited for the best model. They're going to be the ones who built repeatable systems with what's available right now and iterated from there. What's one workflow in your store, could be ads, listings, support, anything, where you know AI could help but you just haven't set it up yet?

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We will be hosting a f/r/e/e live AI Workshop this Friday, This is for anyone that wants help with Ai and going beyond chatgpt > claude > claude code. Please pass it on to any friends or employees you'd like on this call. ----- Got questions? Bring ’em. Want to see how it all works? Pull up a chair. No signups, no hoops to jump through...just click the link and join. Friday, April 3rd 11:00 AM Arizona Time Zoom: [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83233902155...](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83233902155...) This is for anyone wanting to dig deeper into how AI can help your business.