# Food for Agile Thought #548: ROT (Return on Tokens), Product Team Health, Engineers & PMs, AI Treadmill

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> Published: 2026-06-12 14:03:52+00:00

TL; DR: ROT (Return on Tokens) — Food for Agile Thought #548 Welcome to the 548th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,528 peers. This week, Packy McCormick and Markie Wagner call token maxing wasteful: AI should compile processes into code, not burn tokens at runtime; ROT (return on tokens) is... [Read more »](https://age-of-product.com/food-agile-thought-548-rot-return-on-tokens/)

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