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id: "quote-stop-burning-tokens"
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speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
sources: ["s45-claude-limit-chatgpt-habit"]
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# Stop Burning Tokens

> "If you want to use cutting edge models, you have got to stop burning tokens and blaming the model."
> 
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Why It Matters
This is the title quote and one-line thesis of the entire source. It is the connective tissue between **user habit** and **model performance**: the model isn't the bottleneck — your context is. Anchors [[concept-token-burning]] and motivates [[framework-stupid-button-audit]].

## Use as Priming
Good opening sentence whenever you need to redirect a user from 'the model is broken / too expensive' to 'let's audit your workflow first.'