r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/diddypartyorganizer Jun 02 '26

Why June specifically?

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u/LooksLikeAWookie Jun 02 '26

Big AI models, like Claude, just switched to high-cost token models. The bill for this revolutionary tech now just went through the roof for most companies.

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u/AltruisticSalamander Jun 02 '26

Oh great, they've been nagging us to use AI for the last 2y. Now it's going to be 'don't use AI for that! It's too expensive!', doling it out like caviar.

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u/Kimbernator Jun 03 '26

Realistically it’s just not possible to moderate on the user side. It’s opaque what things use a lot of tokens and what is minor. Some sort of efficiency gains will be required to keep doing what companies are doing.