Kris and Matthew are back for a duo episode, and Kris has a hot take: ownership is terrible. What starts as a conversation about AI subscriptions versus API pricing turns into a wide-ranging discussion about what we actually gain by owning things, from Photoshop to your own compute to your house.

Along the way, Kris and Matthew dig into why enterprises are drifting toward per-token pricing, why AMP's headless "own where it runs, rent the model" approach feels like the future, and why a number like "Meta spent 71 trillion tokens" tells you almost nothing about what got built. They also take apart the tired "now anyone can code" claim with a little help from Ratatouille, and land on a simple ask: think through your trade-offs before you repeat the take.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: Fable's Extended Window and a $300 Opus Surprise (00:02:36)
Chapter 2: Subscriptions vs API Pricing: Where the Money Is Heading (00:03:51)
Chapter 4: AMP's Headless Agent: Own Where It Runs, Rent the Model (00:09:30)
Chapter 6: The Hot Take: Ownership Is Bad (00:14:34)
Chapter 7: IP Hoarding, Palantir, and Why Token Pricing Is Correct (00:18:38)
Chapter 8: Be Honest With Yourself: Own vs Rent Math (00:24:07)
Chapter 9: Token Counts Aren't Output: The Meta 71 Trillion Myth (00:29:44)
Chapter 11: Local Hardware Trade-offs: Speed, Availability, Budget (00:40:06)
Chapter 13: Anyone Can Cook, But Not Everyone Can (00:43:52)
Chapter 14: Why the IRS Can't Just Send You a Bill [Extended] (00:50:25)
Chapter 15: Check Your Gut: Chat Search and Apple Intelligence (00:50:25)
Chapter 16: Home Ownership, Raises, and the Chip Shortage (00:53:27)
Epilogue (00:57:25)

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Matthew Sanabria - Host
Kris Brandow - Host

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(00:00) - Prologue
(02:36) - Chapter 1: Fable's Extended Window and a $300 Opus Surprise
(03:51) - Chapter 2: Subscriptions vs API Pricing: Where the Money Is Heading
(09:30) - Chapter 4: AMP's Headless Agent: Own Where It Runs, Rent the Model
(14:34) - Chapter 6: The Hot Take: Ownership Is Bad
(18:38) - Chapter 7: IP Hoarding, Palantir, and Why Token Pricing Is Correct
(24:07) - Chapter 8: Be Honest With Yourself: Own vs Rent Math
(29:44) - Chapter 9: Token Counts Aren't Output: The Meta 71 Trillion Myth
(40:06) - Chapter 11: Local Hardware Trade-offs: Speed, Availability, Budget
(43:52) - Chapter 13: Anyone Can Cook, But Not Everyone Can
(50:25) - Chapter 15: Check Your Gut: Chat Search and Apple Intelligence
(53:27) - Chapter 16: Home Ownership, Raises, and the Chip Shortage
(57:25) - Epilogue