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Analemma_yesterday at 3:01 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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Machayesterday at 4:54 PM

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