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While agentic workflows promise massive productivity gains, many users are skeptical of advice from billionaire founders whose wealth insulates them from the "token anxiety" of costs that can exceed $500 a month. To mitigate these high expenses, savvy developers are engineering complex "gatekeeper" scripts that utilize cheaper models like Gemini for routine validation while reserving premium models for high-level reasoning. This has created a stark divide between those who see the "Anthropic tithe" as a justifiable investment for a speed boost and those who fear high-performance AI is becoming a luxury reserved for the elite. Ultimately, the community remains divided on whether the current price of compute justifies the output for the average software craftsman.