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If you're burning through tokens faster than expected, the cause is usually the same:

Too many iterations, too small.

Asking the AI to make one tiny change, testing, asking for another tiny change, testing again - each iteration costs a full call. Tokens add up fast.

How to do more per call:
→ Give the AI the full context and full goal upfront
→ Ask for multiple changes or alternatives in one request
→ Use a planning step before the build step
→ Run small tests locally, not against the API

The model you're using matters less than how you're using it.

Structured prompts cost less and produce better work.

70% of sales work isn't selling.

An AI-native Go to Market platform changes that - and we're building the foundation.

This is the first build phase of the Innovation Builders Series, our partnership with Innocentive taking high-value AI agent ideas from concept to commercialization.

What's being built:
✅ A unified data model for GTM (accounts, contacts, signals, opportunities)
✅ Real agent orchestration - LLM calls, tool use, traceability
✅ One vertical slice built deep - prospect, end to end
✅ A working external integration
✅ Architecture the next team can build on in additional phases

This is your chance to architect something real.

Check out the challenge here: https://www.topcoder.com/challenges/55cea4d4-0d36-437e-82a6-fbfab6ff30dc

A quick share with our community.

Topcoder has been recognized by Human Cloud as one of just 11 workforce solutions in the world to earn the Top 1% Global badge for Winter 2026.

Human Cloud rankings are merit-based - they evaluate workforce solutions on innovation, delivery, and talent management. This is a cross-category recognition, measured against every type of workforce solution out there.

This badge isn't really about Topcoder as a company. It's about the work the community does. The challenges you win. The submissions you ship. The standards you hold each other to. None of this exists without you.

So - thank you. To everyone who shows up, solves hard problems, and builds the kind of work that gets noticed. 💖

Full Human Cloud listing: https://app.humancloud.com/badges/top-1-global-winter-2026

Eighteen years at Topcoder.

Competitor. Finalist. Teammate. Leader.

Sathya Jayabal has been all four - and that perspective shapes everything she touches today.

She started in the UX track, focusing on wireframing. For nearly a decade she competed actively, sharpening her design thinking along the way.
Multiple-time TCO trip winner.

She later shifted into the QA track and kept competing. Eventually, she joined the team as a QA for the platform itself - finally seeing from the inside what it takes to build the community she'd been part of for years.

Today, Sathya is QA Lead and Product Manager, bridging quality and product strategy to make sure what we ship is built right and actually delivers value.

Outside of work, she's happiest outdoors. Saturday mornings often start on the trekking trails around Bangalore, and she travels often with her family - drawn to new cultures and cuisines. Last year she took a solo trip to Bhutan. When she's winding down, you'll find her with a good book in hand.

Most people join Topcoder to build for the community.

Sathya joined the community first - and stayed to build it.