Token Costs Are Becoming The New EDA Budget Battle

Key Takeaways: Discussions have shifted from unlimited token budgets to restricting tokens or dollars at the engineering level, and rising costs are driving interest in open-source models. Human engineers need tool literacy and workflow literacy to effectively enable agentic AI across the foundation model layer, tools and memory layer, and orchestration layer. Reinforcement learning, flow capturing, and model routers are all needed to ensure agents do the precise workloads required, especially i