The Pomp Podcast · Bitcoin Is the Toll Collector of the AI Economy | Jordi Visser
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compared token processing cost on Claude vs his own model
500 M tokens on Claude = $5,000; same on own model = 97% cheaper
“Carnegie also insisted on railroad-style cost accounting… His monthly reports carefully spread labor costs… tracked all raw material inputs and percentage of waste… competitors literally had no idea what was going on inside their own company.”
“We've actually built our own sort of library in-house that allows the model to generate UI, but in a very token-efficient manner, and to do it in a streamable way”
“Measure the return… might be cost savings, might be revenue growth, divided by both the labor cost and the token cost associated with that project.”
“Critics say the buyout cost $44 million… Egon told me, you’re never going to remember the extra 400 million… it will seem minuscule compared with the gains of owning IMG”
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