Comment by hintymad

> We're talking about a world where you need 5% of every knowledge workers salary to go into tokens. 20% if you're a developer.

Just realized something: if one worries about losing jobs to AI, token's high unit cost is good news. To say the least, high cost would delay the displacement, if any, right?

In the meantime, someone shared the below on X. I guess the moral of the story is that "good enough" does not just displace software engineers, but also models.

   > I Went From $3,000/Month on Claude to $5/Week on DeepSeek

   > And honestly?80% of my work is identical.

   > For the past two months, I was burning $3-5K monthly on Claude Code. Every idea from design to development to testing - full end-to-end automation, even simulating users to test my products and provide feedback.

   > Extremely token-intensive. But Claude's caching sucked, making it insanely expensive.

   > Then I discovered DeepSeek V4.