Sometimes people don’t have an intuitive sense of what Jevons paradox looks like for token consumption. Those of us working with enterprises get to see this first hand every day. Basically enterprises have an unending stream of tasks that they’d love to be able to bring automation to. But for each individual task, it’s either ROI positive or not based on the cost of bringing automation to it (including the setup time, change management, and so on). As tokens get cheaper (at a certain…

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 🧵