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Unfortunately, I Was Right

2026-06-10 Science & Technology
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Cursor is the best way to build software with AI → https://trm.sh/cursor Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:08 - I was right about Token Cost 00:02:35 - Prediction 0: AI Labs will trade tokens for equity 00:02:51 - Prediction 1: Opensource Token Donations 00:04:06 - Cursor 00:04:46 - Prediction 2: Token Budgets/Stipends 00:06:35 - Prediction 3: Token Poker 00:09:07 - Prediction 4: Org & Team Wide Token Budgets 00:11:31 - Prediction 5: Rewarding LoC with more token budget Sources: - https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html - https://x.com/BusinessInsider/status/2062211094450434219 - https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/#organizations-cannot-afford-to-keep-blowing-through-their-ai-budgets-millions-of-dollars-at-a-time-without-roi - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen #theprimeagen #programming #computerscience #ai #chatgippty #terminaldotshop https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

Top Comments (10)

@noradseven 2026-06-10

$1000 meeting to determine if you are spending $50 correctly...so true...so true 😔

2.5k 39 replies
@GreyAven 2026-06-10

Damn I remember 8 days ago..

1.5k 27 replies
@ChamplooMusashi 2026-06-10

The idea of token poker pisses me off more than normal sprint planning

949 18 replies
@krishp1104 2026-06-10

I've been spamming GPT 5.5 and Claude Fable so my boss thinks AI is more expensive than keeping me employed

906 17 replies
@saryakan 2026-06-10

Lead senior token manager sounds like a nice job title... 😈

807 13 replies
@skulver 2026-06-11

You left out the worst one: "Employees must supply their own tokens." They'll sell it as no different than expecting a builder to bring his own tools.

531 27 replies
@AblulAlad 2026-06-10

ay remember when we used to talk about programming

361 6 replies
@SpikyBlade 2026-06-11

"Pair prompting" sounds like regular coding, except you're driving a car while being blind, and everytime you ask if there's something in front of you, there's a guy telling you how right you are

109 4 replies
@ThePrimeTimeagen 2026-06-10

Cursor is the best way to build software with AI → https://trm.sh/cursor

68 28 replies
@alo1417 2026-06-11

The giving more tokens to the member that produces more code is already happening at my company. The guy only vibe codes using speckit, at this point can't even do a for loop on his own. He does like 19 tickets per sprint, most of which are bug fixes of the stuff he broke on the previous sprint. Management loves him. What a time to be in software development..

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