> - EVERYONE is going to be using max tokens

anthropic already hunts down OpenClaw users for using too much on their plan.

I'll give different example: When LED lights started to be more popular, the power usage didn't drop by the amount of power saved

>- tokens will NEVER get cheaper due to improvements in hardware, software, design, market forces etc etc

Well, first, improvements in computing stalled or even rolled back just purely because price of everything compute shot up cos of AI and that will NOT be fixed for a while and ESPECIALLY if AI usage will continue to increase

Second, the token per model might go down in time but better models have more expensive tokens, so we quickly get into spot when:

* price increase in token might not be worth marginal improvement next, better model brings

* more and more models are passing "good enough for the task" threshold so for less and less companies there is any economic sense to pay for the "best" instead of paying deepseek or some other company to run "previous gen" models