They'd be foolish to overcharge for this service while it's new. That was the mistake the RAMBUS people made in 1990s.

The sooner this bursts, the better. I want to get back to building and tinkering, enjoying technology for what it is, rather than some insane pipe dream and power-grab.

Being employed in a business that is heavily pushing AI, and a) not really using that much while, b) being one of the only people that has done anything useful for the business with AI. I can confidently say that AI needs a competent operator behind it to identify exactly where it's useful and monitor it for mistakes.

Most token usage is just spinning wheels and burning tires, and now that the real costs are starting to be exposed to end users, this will become rapidly apparent and completely change the appetite for token consumption.

Can someone please tell me when 'compute' went from a verb to a noun? I hate it.

Microsoft, via El Reg wrote:

"[Copilot] now powers far more complex, agentic workflows that consume far more compute."

Rearrange parts of that sentence and the truth emerges: Copilot consumes far more power.

Yeah smart money wins either way