Here’s a rabbit. It cost $0.40 to draw, at API rates.
The rabbit itself was about 4 cents. 31 cents went on Claude reading its own instructions, before it drew a single ear🐰
We didn’t know that either, until we built a little tool to find out.
The rabbit itself was about 4 cents. 31 cents went on Claude reading its own instructions, before it drew a single ear🐰
We didn’t know that either, until we built a little tool to find out.
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What he built is called TokenTab, a Supertab labs project. Free and open source. No account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your machine. It’s a beta and it only works on Claude Code for now, so it might break. If you try it, tell us what you think.
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Terminal people:
/plugin install tokentab --marketplace getsupertab/claude-marketplace
Everyone else: Claude Code desktop → Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace, paste github.com/getsupertab/cl…, then install TokenTab from the Supertab marketplace.
/plugin install tokentab --marketplace getsupertab/claude-marketplace
Everyone else: Claude Code desktop → Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace, paste github.com/getsupertab/cl…, then install TokenTab from the Supertab marketplace.
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Cosmin Ene retweeted
This is the single most insightful thing I have ever heard about the changing landscape of modern business. Haters are gonna hate, but there is a reason he is the most successful venture capitalist of all time. And no, it's not just luck.
Respect. 👊
Respect. 👊
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Cosmin Ene retweeted
Switzerland is the one country that combines both very high AI adoption and high average spend:
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Anthropic cut token prices and revenue went up. Looks like a paradox, until you drop the assumption that demand is linear. Online, with near-zero marginal cost, price elasticity is wildly non-linear. Valve proved it in 2011: a 75% cut, 40x revenue. x.com/i/article/2114…
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Remember when Steve Jobs put a thousand songs in your pocket? The real revolution was that for the first time you could buy the single song. As many songs as you wanted, but only the ones you wanted. (And it did more to kill piracy than any lawsuit ever did.)
Today’s agents - and tomorrow’s fleets of agents - want the same thing. Small units, only what they need, but fast, and at scale. And they'd want a way to pay for exactly that.
Today’s agents - and tomorrow’s fleets of agents - want the same thing. Small units, only what they need, but fast, and at scale. And they'd want a way to pay for exactly that.
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Amazing! @Microsoft365 is turning on pay-as-you-go by default for new Copilot Business licenses, on top of the seat. The company that perfected the seat license is metering its own AI, and that's a great call. A chat answer is about 5,000 tokens, but one agent workflow can run to a million... Seats price the person. Meters price the work.
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We've run pay-per-use for readers for over 10 years, and now for agents and AI. SPIEGEL sold 5.7M articles one at a time on a tab. For people, pay-per-use solved subscription fatigue. With AI it's different: every answer has a real cost, so the unit economics force you to pass that cost on with a margin. Good to see the biggest software company in the world land in the same place.
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I’ve been early before. Early is uncomfortable. It’s also the only time the position is still open.
Supertab Connect is now on Fastly - bot classification + content licensing, at the edge. The rails for paying AI go in now. Engage early, learn fast, compound. Or catch up later. #justconnect @fastly
Supertab Connect is now on Fastly - bot classification + content licensing, at the edge. The rails for paying AI go in now. Engage early, learn fast, compound. Or catch up later. #justconnect @fastly
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To read one article on futurism.com, I was asked to let 1,220 “technology partners” store and access my data.
That's just absurd. It used to be a few hundred, and that was already ridiculous.
I'd rather pay a few cents for the article, but since that isn't even an the offer.
I’m pro ads. But this is really the path to making money with them?
That's just absurd. It used to be a few hundred, and that was already ridiculous.
I'd rather pay a few cents for the article, but since that isn't even an the offer.
I’m pro ads. But this is really the path to making money with them?
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Cosmin Ene retweeted
.@chamath made a killer point yesterday on the @theallinpod.
@Apple and @Google Android store revenues are fxcked in an Agentic AI world. Because they will be able to easily bypass these GUIs to give you whatever you want.
Think about this when you're invested in these k about how much more revenue will be able to go to creators that are currently being robbed for 30% of whatever they make.
@Apple and @Google Android store revenues are fxcked in an Agentic AI world. Because they will be able to easily bypass these GUIs to give you whatever you want.
Think about this when you're invested in these k about how much more revenue will be able to go to creators that are currently being robbed for 30% of whatever they make.
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Cosmin Ene retweeted
Your next users are machines
Agents burn nearly 5x the tokens people do, up 14x in six months
Agents burn nearly 5x the tokens people do, up 14x in six months
AI agents don't use the cloud like humans do. AWS CEO Matt Garman on rewiring AWS for its newest "users":
"Increasingly we're seeing teams that want a cloud that is great to work with agents and not just with people."
" We've doubled down on things like starting a database in capabilities that agents are excited about."
"Many agents wanna create a database, do a little bit of work, and then have the database go away. You don't really need that database to have five nines of durability."
"There are new building blocks that agents are gonna want that we just didn't really need before: compute sandboxes, gateways, agent permissions versus people or service role permissions."
" A lot of those are things that we have built and are building and thinking actively about because they are just brand-new building blocks. It's not using the existing building blocks differently."
@mattsgarman @RaghuRaghuram
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Cloudflare shipped Pay Per Use this week. Right model, I've been building it for fifteen years.
One thing to read closely: the buyer defines what counts as a use, sets the price, and reports that it happened - a timestamp, a URL, an event ID. Not what it was for.
Unit, rate and meter, all on the buyer's side.
I think you need to keep the model, but move the pen.
(Biased, and I love it - we build this stuff.)
One thing to read closely: the buyer defines what counts as a use, sets the price, and reports that it happened - a timestamp, a URL, an event ID. Not what it was for.
Unit, rate and meter, all on the buyer's side.
I think you need to keep the model, but move the pen.
(Biased, and I love it - we build this stuff.)
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