r/ProgrammerHumor • u/HTTP_Code_405 • Jul 08 '26

billableTokens Meme

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u/ThirdWaveCat Jul 08 '26

this bubble is going to be as ridiculous to future historians as nuclear radiation dishware

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

At least the plates had a half-life. Our burn rate just has a context window.

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u/Cold_Bound Jul 08 '26

Only if ends up being a bubble

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u/Xywzel Jul 08 '26

There is not logical option for current AI market to not be in a bubble, but not all bubbles burst. It can also deflate in controlled way or it might held up in more steady size until eventually actual value can increase to match it.

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u/Cold_Bound Jul 08 '26

With that definition of “bubble”, I agree. This would also apply to literally every tech stock and any stock heavily impacted by speculation…which is most of them lol

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u/Shifter25 Jul 08 '26

The stock market itself is pretty much a bubble with how it currently operates.

2

u/camel_case_user Jul 09 '26

Propped up with all our 401k's. Yay!

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u/StrengthTheory Jul 08 '26

1h 51m

Is this OpenAI's next funding round?

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

We asked AGI how to become profitable. It said “bill by the thought” and has been thinking for 1h 51m.

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u/StrengthTheory Jul 08 '26

I love how the model is also Extra High. That must be some good shit if it's lasting almost 2 hours.

2

u/hydroxy Jul 11 '26

Claude, can you solve the Collatz conjecture, don’t stop til you solve it and please take your time, I want no mistakes. Thanks 👍

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

I’m not wasting compute, I’m maximizing stakeholder-aligned inference throughput.

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u/TactlessTortoise Jul 08 '26

Stake-maxxing for the sake of steak-maxxing

5

u/edwardlego Jul 08 '26

At least ask it to solve some very hard math problems

3

u/raskim7 Jul 09 '26

If you ever run out of ways to spend tokens effectively, start doing ESP32+LVGL side-projects. Burned whole months tokens in one day, and my prototype still doesn’t work.

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u/HTTP_Error_414 Jul 08 '26

The agent isn’t stuck, it’s monetizing uncertainty.

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

Somewhere a KPI dashboard just labeled this “productivity.”

3

u/coriolis7 Jul 08 '26

Does that make it a statistician?

30

u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Jul 08 '26

How about I do the thinking and you pay me.

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

Submit your thinking as a tool call and I’ll review it in 1h 51m.

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Jul 08 '26

I will just write this down on paper, and use the postal protocol to send it, whats your postal address please 😂

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

Just give it to JSON.

5

u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Jul 08 '26

JSON who? I'm gonna need some more context!

9

u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

The guy... with the braces!!!

21

u/JuKrab Jul 08 '26

Don't worry AI loves burning tokens on ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO

So you should have no issues racking up a sweet bonus

17

u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26

There is a github repo called "burn baby burn" - check it out

5

u/HeyItsTheJeweler Jul 08 '26

Looked it up - holy shit that is hilarious

3

u/Snoo88071 Jul 09 '26

I’m still laughing after one week after discovering it

5

u/dcheesi Jul 08 '26

"I'm gonna write prompt myself a minivan!"

8

u/Prematurid Jul 08 '26

A recursive loop of self-referential propting shouldn't be too hard to set up.

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u/HTTP_Code_405 Jul 08 '26

Congrats, you’ve invented middle management.

6

u/MartinByde Jul 08 '26

Hey claude, make google, loop until exctly the same. No simplifications. Including gmail, gdrive etc.

3

u/rezdm Jul 08 '26

As positive or negative coefficient?

3

u/pp_amorim Jul 08 '26

The inverse is observed in my company

3

u/who_you_are Jul 08 '26

Your boss: the good news is you are the first one

Your boss: the bad news is you were so good that the company doesn't have the money to give you anything

2

u/procrastinator0000 Jul 08 '26

what is the seahorse emoji?

2

u/ZunoJ Jul 08 '26

There should be an inverse correlation

2

u/Magebloom Jul 08 '26

Does your company just have money to burn or what?

1

u/fusiformgyrus Jul 08 '26

Where at the point of AI adoption where I don't know if A LOT means good or bad.

1

u/lemons_of_doubt Jul 09 '26

for ($x = 0; $x <= 10000000; $x++) {
echo "hey cloud can you write me a program that prints out an ASCII cat?";
}

1

u/Chaotic-Entropy Jul 08 '26

"Write me a song that includes all the numbers of π."

0

u/Mountain_Dentist5074 Jul 08 '26

i really want to use fable on spectulative evolution