AI coding agents flood the model's context with junk: verbose tool output, the same file read five times. Token optimizers strip it before it hits the model. Cheaper, faster, less dumb.
Problem: Most async workflows are held together with queues, retries, cron jobs, and hope. Durable workflows are the abstraction trying to replace that mess.
Solution: Durable workflows let you write long-running, multi-step workflows as normal code. They handle crashes, retries, waits