A tweet landed on my timeline this week:

"Loop engineering is a psyop. Get everyone building multi-agent workflows that loop indefinitely, burn tokens at 10x the normal rate, post record usage numbers right before IPO season."

It's a good tweet. Funny, cynical, shareable. And completely wrong about where the blame lands.

The companies aren't conspiring to burn your tokens. You burned them yourself. When you shipped without a definition of done.

Here's what's actually happening.