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Comment on: GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
I think the fixation on numbers of tokens and dollars per token is missing the point a bit. LLMs are quite useless without good tools. The article calls out search as one of them. And it's important. If you are coding, the tools are relatively easy: they are mostly open source and don't have a lot of authorization logic around them. Anyone with access to python and some access to a half decent AI model can pull together a decent agentic coding tool. There are many examples out there.But if you look at the overall market, there's a rapid shift happening to non-coding tools and non programmer us