Ed Zittrain

That is a very weird aberration where they've said, well, to do a task that you did two years ago, it's now 10x cheaper if your dog's awake but your cat's asleep.

And it's like a weird series of asterisks like Barry Bonds' baseballs.

The thing is, we are yet to actually meet the point when people really have to judge how –

valuable this is.

We're seeing it already.

ServiceNow just blew through their AI yearly token budget in, what, five months?

Uber burned through it in four.

We're seeing now the real costs start to come in.

That's where my big argument is.

And this stuff is not getting cheaper.

It isn't.

They might be charging less for some models, but that is not necessarily helpful if the models are burning more tokens.

Killer Code had a great piece about this.

So in the end, it comes down to, yeah, if this costs nothing, that would be a completely different conversation.

But this costs everything.

And the argument that people keep making is that training costs will go away.

No, they won't.

When?

How?

In fact, very simple question.