Ha! Yes. “Not my tokens.” That’s absolutely plausible future slang.
It generalizes perfectly from “not my problem” / “not my money”:
“Should we really send the entire DOM?”
“Screw it. Not my tokens.”
Meaning: Why optimize? Someone else’s AI bill/context budget is paying for this.
And eventually detached from literal AI usage:
“They want a 90-page report?”
“Not my tokens.”
That’s a good futurism entry because it’s exactly how technical terminology becomes ordinary metaphor after the technology becomes mundane.
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I just said this about something I was designing, and I thought, yeah, this is really going to happen at some point when people really start throwing designs around that consume AI as part of the output. It’s going to be shocking.
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