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+1. I see all these posts about tokens, and I'm like "who's paying by the token?"
by piker 9mo ago
+1. I see all these posts about tokens, and I'm like "who's paying by the token?"
- Hrun0 9mo ago> +1. I see all these posts about tokens, and I'm like "who's paying by the token?" When you use the API
- smallerize 9mo agoYes. That is the question.
- paulddraper 9mo agoMost LLM usage? There’s some exceptions eg Claude Max
- piker 9mo agoyes, and VS code as mentioned above. That's kind of the joke.
- handoflixue 9mo agoAnthropic pushes you to use the API for anything "third party", such as running OpenClaw
- Incipient 9mo agoAnd I keep thinking who can AFFORD to pay per token? I did a simple test - three small files and a prompt was nearly 10k tokens. Compared to my actual code base, where I use 5.2/sonnet to parse huge chunks of my code...I'd be burning hundreds of dollars per day if i was doing it per token rather than copilot - let alone the huge agent sessions where I use Opus and it has 50+ back and forward attempts. Please note I do actually read every line of code these reckless hacks generate haha.