$100 buys 6M tokens today—and 6B if costs fall 1,000x, paving way for agent fleets
dfinke · x · 2026-10-30
Developer dfinke does the math: $100 today buys roughly 6 million AI tokens, and if token costs drop 1,000x—possibly by 2027—the same $100 buys 6 billion.
He argues that economics enables fleets of autonomous agents that continuously research, code, test, deploy, monitor and improve entire systems—not AI helping humans work faster, but AI doing the work. His question: are you preparing for that world, or just learning today's tools?
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