Being token-rich today is like owning a PC in the 80s: quota gap widens capability discovery
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-14
Quoting @rakyll: a tiny group sits on frontier systems with near-infinite quotas, treating capability discovery as a full-time job — building skills, intuition, and applications before anyone else. The poster adds an analogy: being token-rich today is like being one of the few kids with a PC in the 80s. API quotas are becoming the new digital divide in who finds model capabilities first.
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