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The only people winning are selling shovels
Dude, it's 2026. We don't sell shovels, we sell shovel subscriptions.
Tiered shovel subscriptions.
Dynamically priced
Oh absolutely, Anthropic has dynamic token usage during peak hours.
Or rather the right to use shovels under ToS that can be changed on a whim.
And you can sell at least one shovel to somebody digging themselves into a hole