I’m also guessing that like a gym membership, many of the subscriptions are under-used in practice. As someone whose work and hobbies don’t involve significant programming, I have a Claude Max subscription but I only come close to limits very rarely (the only times in recent memory was when I tried to use Fable on Max to do a sweep of questions that interested me and barely seemed on the cusp of doable with present-day AI, in the 3 days I had access to Fable[1]).
I got blocked/filtered a bunch of times on work-relevant tasks but I wanted to see if it had novel literary insights on Chiang, Kafka, etc. Burned a bunch of tokens on this.
Agree. I expect them to be more fully used in the future. As inference scaling improves, it means there will be more tasks that can be done with 100% of token limits but not 10% of token limits. Companies will probably adjust pricing strategy in response.
I’m also guessing that like a gym membership, many of the subscriptions are under-used in practice. As someone whose work and hobbies don’t involve significant programming, I have a Claude Max subscription but I only come close to limits very rarely (the only times in recent memory was when I tried to use Fable on Max to do a sweep of questions that interested me and barely seemed on the cusp of doable with present-day AI, in the 3 days I had access to Fable[1]).
I got blocked/filtered a bunch of times on work-relevant tasks but I wanted to see if it had novel literary insights on Chiang, Kafka, etc. Burned a bunch of tokens on this.
Agree. I expect them to be more fully used in the future. As inference scaling improves, it means there will be more tasks that can be done with 100% of token limits but not 10% of token limits. Companies will probably adjust pricing strategy in response.