Naive token restrictions will quietly frustrate users who've tasted scaling, VC Sarah Drinkwater warns
saranormous · x · 2026-09-22
Sarah Drinkwater (@saranormous) argues that companies restricting inference and naively capping tokens at the cost of performance will face mounting user frustration — users won't articulate why, but they'll feel it. Once people have tasted unrestricted token scaling, they simply expect it as the baseline.
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