The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]