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- VBW 2: the AI no longer gets to say it's doneVBW 2 is a rewrite built on one rule, the model proposes and a program decides. A short tour of what changes, and why tokens stopped being the point.
- Where the tokens go: what VBW 1 saved, and how we countedMuch of what an agent team spends goes on managing itself, not on your code. Here is how VBW 1 cut that overhead by about 70%, and exactly how we counted.
- Why we publish the method before the numberSavings claims about AI agents are easy to make and hard to check. Here is the rule we hold ourselves to before any figure appears on this site.