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Everyone on earth will get really good chatbots for free, so thats good for democratization of AI, but really good agents that can do complex work …
May 21, 2026
Opinion arguing that while free chatbots democratize basic AI access, complex agentic workflows consuming orders-of-magnitude more tokens will remain cost-prohibitive for most users and organizations, creating a two-tier AI economy split between chatbot users and agent users.