If you work in cybersecurity, you already know the feeling of having more to investigate than hours in the day. The security research backlog grows while you sleep. Threat feeds update faster than you can read them. Incident reports pile up. So when AI tools showed up offering to help with all of it, of course, you went all in. You spun up agents. You burned through tokens. And then somewhere around your third active subscription, you realized you might have a problem.

At Sentry, we refer to it as tokenmaxxing (although NYT published some article defining it differently, if you were at BSides Sofia, you know who coined it first!)

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