"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
Perspective: AI demand is inflated, and only Anthropic is being realistic
The main usage metric for artificial intelligence, called tokens, looks explosive on paper, but it may be significantly overstated.
Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers
Some organizings are finding themselves spending more on AI token fees than they do paying human salaries.
Why Things Like TypeSafe AI Don't Interest Me
A handful of people showed up in the comments asking 'have you tried TypeSafe?'. I use that as a hook to lay out my rule about new AI tools, actually investigate the case, and explain why I don't waste time optimizing token spend.
The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years - Slashdot
"Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld: According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers ...
AI Is Slowing Down
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A broken pricing paradigm
A token is not a fixed unit of cost Variance in usage creates an interconnected pricing and scaling issue Anjali Shrivastava anjali.shrivastava99@gmail.com | @anjali_shriva THIS ESSAY IS NOW LIVE! A token is not a fixed unit of cost PART I: High variance in AI demand breaks unit economics and re...
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
AI Inference Pricing, EU Hosted, Per Token | TensorX
Transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing for private AI inference on TensorX. No lock-in, EU-hosted, with zero data retention and an OpenAI-compatible API.
The AI Industry Is Losing
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AI Benefits - But at What Cost?
In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives way to realistic and profitable business models, where will the real costs land?
The Ads Model for Prompts Vertically Integrates AI
Meta's dual-tier AI pricing introduces an explicit barter : a 92% discount on inference in exchange for your data. Applying Michael Mauboussin's insight that prices contain information reveals the clearing price of prompt data : $1.24 per million tokens.
AI Is Too Expensive
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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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