Opinion: Demand for Frontier Tokens from Long-Running Agents is Beyond Imagination
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-12
The author argues that the natural limit to demand for frontier model tokens is far beyond what anyone is currently imagining, even the most aggressive super bulls. The long-running agent thread primitive is currently in its infancy, comparable to the '64KB RAM era' of computing, implying an impending explosive growth in compute and memory requirements.
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