The End of Token Cost Anxiety: A Graduation Ceremony for the AI Market's Naive Phase

Brett Taylor said something brutally honest: In a year, enterprises won't worry about token costs anymore. Back in 2024, this sounded like an overly optimistic prophecy. But think about it carefully, and this is precisely the inevitable result of the AI industry moving from the "early adopter phase" to the "infrastructure phase." Anxiety over token costs is essentially a transitional product of a market that isn't mature enough, competition that isn't fierce enough, and toolchains that aren't complete enough.