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The Weird Economics of AI Tokens

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Why the Smallest Unit of Artificial Intelligence Might Become One of the Most Important Economic Units of the Internet There is something deeply strange happening in computing. For decades, software economics was relatively easy to understand. You bought a computer. You bought some software. Maybe…

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  1. 2026-08-31 14:02 · DEV Community — AI
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