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fredcallagantoday at 6:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

I have noticed particularly in recent weeks and maybe couple of months that token costs are just ridiculous. I can understand the upcoming IPOs and instinctive pressure to show profits ... but let's be honest, showcasing burning 1.3 million USD in tokens by a single developer in a month is the most ridiculous thing I have seen in my entire life. The general principles still apply. You expect investing X and have a return on such investment. Unfortunately that's not so easy to promise or expect. There's no real 1 to 1 correlation between amount of code written and returns, and even less between tokens burned and returns. I start to believe that the current token pricing approach, followed at the moment by all leading labs (especially considering OS models capabilities), is bordeline delusional ...