Mythos.XYZ stands for privacy. User control. AI enablement. But there's something else we're against. I call it BigToken.

You know BigPharma. BigTech. BigOil. Industries that grow by creating dependency, inflating costs, and resisting efficiency. BigToken is the same pattern, applied to AI tokens.

The Token Boom

A16Z and OpenRouter published a study on 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM usage. The finding that caught my attention: reasoning-oriented models now account for more than 50% of total token usage. From near-zero in late 2024 to over half of all traffic.

Great. Reasoning is a real unlock. Models that think before they speak perform better. But here's the question nobody's asking:

What's the reason for the reasoning?

Bloated AX

We had bloated HTML. Bloated JavaScript. Bloated CSS. Now we have bloated AI experiences. AX bloat.

Every unnecessary token costs money. Every unnecessary token burns compute. Every unnecessary token heats the planet. The datacenters, AI creators, software users, developers. Everyone wants scale. Everyone wants growth.

But scale what? Growth in what?

Over 50% of tokens now flow through reasoning models. These models generate more tokens per request. They take longer. They cost more. When more than half of all AI traffic is heavier by design, the economics shift fast.

The Bubble Risk

The AI bubble is real. Not because AI isn't useful. Because the economics are being inflated. When every company optimizes for token volume instead of token value, you get bloated AX. You get models that reason in circles. You get UX designed around AI limitations, not user needs.

Sound familiar? It's the same pattern as every bubble. Growth metrics decoupled from value creation.

Others see it too. A recent Hacker News comment put it bluntly: "verbose antigentic tools that are able to inflate revenue through inefficient context/output shenanigans." That's BigToken in a sentence.

A Simple Fix

Even a modest reduction in unnecessary token production would be staggering. Across billions of requests. The savings in compute, cost, carbon, and user time would be massive.

That's not anti-AI. That's pro-efficiency. That's building systems that do more with less. Not because we hate tokens. Because we respect what they cost.

What Mythos.XYZ Is Doing

We build lean. HubChat doesn't pad prompts. Characters don't ramble. Memory doesn't hoard. Every token we send to your API has a job.

Healthy AX means AI experiences that don't bloat. Humans can scroll past bloated UI. AI can't. Every extra token is compute burned, energy spent, heat generated. At scale, that matters.

The best AI experience isn't the one that talks the most. It's the one that respects your time, your money, your compute, and the planet we all share.

BigToken wants you to consume. We want you to create.