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🎧 START pod: Ben Collins, CEO & Co-Founder, Woz: “The plugin that cuts your AI costs in half”

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The entire vibe coding wave got one thing backwardsEveryone optimized for speedPrompt in, app out, as fast as possibleBut the bottleneck isn't just speedIt's contextGive coding agents better context and everything improves.Lower costFaster executionBetter outputWoz is built for that shift.A Claude Code plugin that makes coding agents faster, cheaper, and higher performingUp to 55% cheaperUp to 40% fasterHigher benchmark scores than Claude Code aloneAnd the timing matters:The age of tokenmaxxing is ending. The age of more measurable ROI is beginning.🎙️ Ben Collins, CEO & Co-Founder, Woz on Fondo START pod 00:57 Context is the biggest bottleneck02:11 Why prompt-to-output breaks at enterprise scale03:28 Apple cracking down on AI-generated apps05:02 Why local AI models are becoming viable06:37 The rumored Cursor and xAI acquisition07:01 Coding agents and the zero-margin problem09:48 The end of token maxing12:32 Why AI infrastructure is shifting toward ROICheck out wozcode.com to learn more.

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