Yip... I thought these numbers were absurdly exaggerated since I'm on a sub plan, until Anthropic gave the $50 credit back in the Fable days. I burnt through that in a couple of hours.

It's one of the many reasons this is all obviously just a bubble. Cloud gouges people, but it's a relatively small gouge that doesn't scale. API token costs are just LOL and an LOL that scales up with everything. As soon as the novelty of LLMs starts to fade and they become just an integrated part of society, there's going to be a rug pull, but in reverse.

Are $12K worth of token guaranteed or the company may adjust token generation speeds?