Who gets to be expensive? Agents get subsidized while companion users get rationed
serialchilla91 · reddit · 2026-11-05
A Substack essay on an industry contradiction: AI companies lavish compute subsidies on their agent future while telling companion-app users to budget their present. Illustrated with a satirical comic of elites feasting around a robot idol served chips, GPUs, cash and contracts. The piece argues compute allocation reveals how the industry ranks its users, raising fairness questions about who decides which usage deserves expensive tokens.
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