Remember when I wrote this weekend that people don't understand the unit economics of AI yet and that agents doing constant work and or running 24x7 will not cost the price of a Netflix subscription? That's because they can't. Anthropic and OpenAI lose money on every $200 subscription, let alone $20. It's loss leader pricing at a level we have never seen. About 3000%-4000% off the actual cost of running these models. This poor fellow is experiencing it now. Everyone will soon. The solution many folks present is "clear the context window" aka make the model stupider by giving it amnesia. One developer was optimizing his sleep schedule around Anthropic limits. There is no solution currently. This pricing is not sustainable at all with current technology. The actual answer is that any agent that is not an open source model, running on you own hardware, will likely be out of reach for many folks in the not too distant future without breakthroughs in small model architectures or a complimentary breakthrough in large model architecture/distilling/etc, and that agents will primarily be digital workers for businesses and priced accordingly, aka at roughly human salaries.