No More Cheap Claude: 4 First Principles of Token Economics in 2026 (opens in new tab)

TL;DR: Token Economics in the Era of Scarcity Your Claude Pro subscription hits limits faster than it did in January, as Anthropic quietly re-priced the ceiling, and every AI provider is rationing compute. If you keep working with Claude the way you did six months ago, you are in for a rude awakening. This article gives you four principles that explain how Token Economics actually works, so you can stop accepting the black box and start using your budget deliberately. Token Economics Principl...