Jake Burleson
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Tuesday 02 June 2026 19:46:08 GMT
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Ryan :
I'm a software engineer and we've been using AI for coding HEAVILY. we use Copilot, which switched to tokenized billing on June 1st. we got a message from our CTO on June 2nd, letting us know that the AI cost was tracking high and that we needed to use the lower cost models mainly and only use the higher cost models when absolutely necessary. as a company with 8 people using AI, we blew through our allotted monthly credits....in 2 days
2026-06-03 23:25:03
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RobsFavoriteAudiobooks :
Corporate CEOs: -Netflix/Streaming started off cheap and then got more expensive after disrupting the market -Uber/Ride-sharing started off cheap and then got more expensive after disrupting the market -AirBnB started off cheap and then got more expensive after disrupting the market -Wow, AI is so cost effective. I’d better lay off huge chunks of my workforce since this will be cheaper than humans forever
2026-06-04 02:12:39
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itsyourfriendkim :
This is a great explanation
2026-06-05 20:27:05
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PixelPusher :
you almost had it. almost. you touched on it. AI does not discriminate on a token that delivers a good result and one the delivers a bad result. it costs the same. in what other industry would you pay for mistakes. imagine a nurse taking blood. they take 10 tries to find a vein. you get 10 separate bills from your insurance provider for each attempt the nurse made. welcome to per token pricing for AI.
2026-06-03 18:50:21
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eric-the-viking :
Token costs aside, AI companies are not going to sell you a service that lets you replace multiple 6-figure-salary programmers for pennies on the dollar.
2026-06-04 00:28:37
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Bladel :
See, I was thinking about streaming services. When they first launched, we couldn’t believe how much entertainment we were getting for a few bucks a month. Everybody dropped cable. Now there are a dozen subscriptions, all expensive, and they’ve brought back ads. It’s a more expensive ad-choked version of cable TV.
2026-06-03 13:12:25
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Helen Will :
Please also note that you don’t know how many tokens you query will cost beforehand so it’s like you order from DoorDash, have to pay the full amount plus tip, and the full amount could be $10 or it could be $530 and there is no way to know before it gets there and you’ve been charged.
2026-06-03 17:57:47
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rose :
people don't understand that local llm's are still stupid expensive, but it's gonna be coming out of your electric bill. no one is talking about this, and a lot of folks seem to think local AI is free or close to it.
2026-06-03 06:50:18
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🇺🇲🆘Definitely My Name🇺🇦💙 :
you missed the part in the analogy where when you have to start paying full price, you have no car to get you own food so you are forced to continue using doordash. so many companies are switching their entire operating model around AI. mine included.
2026-06-03 13:45:45
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Quincy! :
As a corporate employee, one of our service providers recently switched to tokenized billing and our organization immediately said “this is not a covered expense, do not exceed your base allotment of tokens”. This feels like Moviepass on a massive scale.
2026-06-03 21:15:49
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Maymurray :
It’s getting harder and harder for companies who don’t make money off software to justify the use of ai. Just recently the ai team had to have a “crash course on how to use less tokens” with the top 10% of spenders at the company. We r now basically begging our software engineers to use their brains a little more because it’s too expensive to be worth it even if it is saving a bit of time
2026-06-03 16:20:24
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Random Answer :
big businesses are already pulling back...
2026-06-03 12:26:33
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justinlooker5 :
also known as enshittification.
2026-06-04 14:41:57
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Alyssa :
I work for an IT company that has been pushing AI insanely for months now. Yesterday, for the first time ever, we got an email saying that we need to be cautious and use the right model for our query to be aware cost impact…
2026-06-03 19:24:59
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jbfanaccount :
The last year at work: more AI! More! This week at work: guys your AI usage is getting a little out of hand.
2026-06-05 20:06:35
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danielh2273 :
This started with cloud services. last company I worked for my team spent 3 years building a data ecosystem in Azure. it worked great, was super fast, auto scaled to meet business demands, and was then scrapped for a garbage in house solution because the line item for external spend was unpalatable to management
2026-06-05 14:11:04
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Robot :
“Vibe code the app that tracks vibe coded apps 😂 “
2026-06-05 20:56:32
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KiknTiger :
It’s going to move to local hardware and in the long term. You can use an open source LLM on a $5,000 laptop that is 80% as good as Sonnet.
2026-06-06 02:17:11
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PPL4Progress :
AI costs will decrease significantly, led by the Chinese innovations. Frontier models will do more for less, and free models on local hardware will do 90% of the work. But the boom will bust and a lot of investors will lose a lot of money.
2026-06-04 16:28:36
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Li :
What’s worse too, token usage cost isn’t predictable because all prompts use different usage and you don’t know until it’s complete. Using your analogy it’s like requesting a pizza and it charges you $40, but a pizza with light cheese is $75 because of the complexity. Youd eventually stop ordering because your bill isn’t correlated to how useful the output is every time
2026-06-04 02:54:31
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revup510 :
Remember paying for cell phone minutes?
2026-06-04 12:54:39
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Hblerghhhhh :
Oh it’s just a bigger MoviePass, got it
2026-06-03 14:29:38
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fivcyl :
This actually happened with MoviePass
2026-06-04 12:32:20
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user2328485648217 :
When OpenAI first launched a paid tier at $20/month, they quickly realized that they wouldn’t ever make enough from subscription revenue to turn a profit. So they launched a higher tier and decided to really sky-high it to make SURE it turned a profit: $200/month. They STILL couldn’t turn a profit because of how much people used it and the associated token cost. People are going to sprint in the other direction once they realize how much it actually costs to run this, and only enterprise licenses at scale will make financial sense.
2026-06-04 02:04:07
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Sam Henri Gold :
unrelated but foile is a great album
2026-06-04 12:23:50
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