Comment by jeremyjh

It isn't an argument, and I never said it is better. It is an explanation for why the pricing break is relevant. Anyone can do the same things to take advantage of that pricing. Would you prefer I not explain a basic fact to someone who may not know what is possible?

The services are priced this way because larger context has significantly higher costs. That is a fact about the technology and it is true for every provider. So moaning about it isn't useful.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people who don't manage context effectively - who start every session with 60K tokens - and that is significantly hurting the performance of every single thing they do with coding agents.