Miles Brundage: LLMs were 'born cheap' relative to human labor, driving rapid adoption
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-28
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI policy lead, notes that while LLM token prices have dropped sharply, tokens were cheap relative to "human tokens" from day one. That, he argues, is a big reason adoption took off so quickly compared to other technologies — LLMs were born cheap rather than needing years of price declines.
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