George Vines on Nostr: Giffen good: someone has a fixed agent budget they spend partly on Claude and partly ...
Giffen good: someone has a fixed agent budget they spend partly on Claude and partly on Deepseek. As Deepseek prices rise, they're forced to use Deepseek more and Claude less because Deepseek is still cheaper and the total amount of tokens they need won't get small.
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