Two grifts define AI's current currency: subsidized tokens and sold GitHub stars
dbreunig · x · 2026-09-04
dbreunig argues you can read the industry's current currency from the grifts on offer. He gets pitches daily for two things: subsidized tokens — signaling vendors are buying usage growth — and services selling GitHub stars, up to four emails a day, showing star counts have become a hard metric worth faking.
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