Remember when I talked about unmetered and free tokens on the podcast being a major driver in open-source and local hardware trends? Here is the proof point -- cheap tokens = massive usage When you have local models running unmetered or on-prem servers, your consumption changes completely

OpenRouter@OpenRouterAug 28

What happened when GPT 5.6 Terra and Luna were heavily discounted on OpenRouter? Token usage exploded by 13.8x Jevons Paradox = as technology makes the use of a resource more efficient, total consumption of that resource increases rather than decreases 🧵