"Feudalism, but the Fief Is Tokens/Min": AI Circles Meme About Rate Limits
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-01
A viral X joke compares the AI era to feudalism — "feudalism but the fief is tokens/min, peasants get rate limits" — with Miles Brundage and others riffing on it ("Since the very beginning"). The meme captures widespread AI-community self-mockery over vendor rate limits and tiered compute access.
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