$VEX
StableSnapshot Window: 2026-07-13 14:10 UTC · ← Back to Crypto Overview
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“My token cost is doubling every 45 days but my downstream productivity is essentially flat!” All roads lead to Chinese open source models usage exponentially growing over the next 12 months!!! [Spoken audio]: I sat down with my CTO today, and I said, how are we doing on token spend? He said the most incredible thing. He said, right now, our token costs are doubling every 45 days. I was like, ugh, and he said, yeah. I said, well, what is the downstream productivity? He said, maybe 5% max. I said, okay, so my costs are doubling every 45 days. My upside is essentially flat, and he said basically, and I said, well, explain why that is. And he said, honestly, what we're finding out is that you need to use a lot more tokens to get to this next iteration of improvement because we've effectively already asymptoted. And I said, so what should we do? And he said, honestly, we have to figure this out. And so we're going to take a step back and try to figure out what to do. I don't know how many other companies will actually go through this reckoning now, but the point is everybody in the next three or four years will for sure go through it. So I suspect that if you can get out now, you should get out now before all of that starts to seep into the water table because I think that's probably what allows you to get out at a huge price and raise a huge amount of money.
