Your Twenty Dollar Employee Got Cheaper Again On Tuesday

Podcast: AI Breakdown · Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝. 😳 You have spent your whole career budgeting for a tool that costs more as it gets better. It got better and cheaper in the same seventy two hours, which quietly breaks what every planning cycle assumes. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞. Hold the capability fixed and the cost of getting it has fallen about 47 percent every quarter since 2023. Not every year. Every quarter. Whatever you paid for a given standard of work three months ago, you pay roughly half now. Inside the episode: 🔴 The curve runs about 𝟒 times faster than DNA sequencing fell, 18 times faster than batteries 🔴 One customer measured 𝟔𝟑% fewer tokens for the same answer on the newest model 🔴 The catch: a heavy user still burns 7,000 dollars a day, because every price cut invites more work Your move: find the AI idea you abandoned because the maths did not work, and price it again now. The objection may have expired while you we...