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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by Analemma_ on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:01AM (#47575229)
We’re not even close to demand saturation with tokens. Have you seen the people rending their garments with rage that Anthropic and Google won’t let them use their flat-rate subscriptions to burn millions of tokens per hour on OpenClaw? And that’s a tiny set of die-hard tinkerers.

The ceiling of token use when everyone has something akin to OpenClaw just running as a background process on their phone is way higher than there’s supply for right now. Jevons paradox is still in full force.

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by Macha on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:54PM (#47576765)
Is that not appealing to those users _because_ its a subsidised flat rate? Like those users could go and swap to API pricing right now if they wanted to, but at API pricing they don’t want to
Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by Analemma_ on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:14AM (#47588569)
Right, but that just proves there's tons of pent-up demand waiting in the wings as token prices fall.