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Jul 17, 2026 27 min

Ep 15 — The AI Meter Is Running

from The Droid Duo Podcast Hosted by Gil Appel and David Schweidel

The $20 AI subscription is a myth: Gil and David break down token maxing (why burning $500K of tokens isn't productivity, 0:21), units nobody understands - 20x Lord of the Rings? (3:23), the three ways you pay for AI (6:13), running open-weight models locally for privacy and certainty (7:46), whether a Mac Mini is all your org needs (11:26), Sol vs Fable and Anthropic's defensive game (16:21), the usage-bar reset war (19:42), and driving your AI tank to empty (23:18).

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