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TH Troy Hunt Troy Hunt Security researcher and consultant based on Australia's Gold Coast.

“If the cost of the AI, if the cost of the tokens went up five times, we'd still be way ahead. I honestly think it'd be more like 10 times before we had to start going, objectively, is this now a problem? If I look at what we spend on Stefan, our one employee, versus what we spend on tokens, it is an order of magnitude more efficient.”

Troy Hunt's Weekly Update Podcast · Software Engineering & Infra · November 2026

“If the cost of the AI, if the cost of the tokens went up five times, we'd still be way ahead. I honestly think it'd be more like 10 times before we had to start going, objectively, is this now a problem? If I look at what we spend on Stefan, our one employee, versus what we spend on tokens, it is an order of magnitude more efficient.” — Troy Hunt, Troy Hunt's Weekly Update Podcast

Context

A viewer asked how far AI prices could rise before Troy would re-evaluate, given token prices are widely believed to be below cost. He treats it as an ROI question, comparing token spend with the cost of his one employee, whom he says he still wants.

Transcript

Troy Hunt's Weekly Update Podcast Around 00:00 into the episode
Troy Hunt

Good morning. Rushing into place as usual. Wouldn't be a weekly view unless I wasn't rushing in some way or another. Yeah, that's sort of been the theme of the week. My office is still in disarray. My office is still built into the disarray. My office is still built in. So everything came out of the wardrobe in order for the wardrobe to get upgraded along with everything else in this room. And everything is still covered in dust. I feel like I could pick a single thing up on my desk and dust absolutely everywhere. Anyway, that's fine. How about Binance? I shouldn't laugh. That's serious. I'd seen little bits and pieces of this in the press over the week. And then this morning I was doing some press on it. Some media, one of the local radio stations, wanted to talk about, is your money safe in the bank in the era of AI? Hmm. Yes. Yes, it probably is. It's kind of interesting, every one of these discussions, because like, you know, the banks have AI as well, right? Like, you know, the bad guys obviously have AI, but the banks have AI too. And the good guys can do stuff with AI in the same way that the bad guys can do…

Speaker 2

It's thinking.

Troy Hunt

Look at the pen. Okay, the proposal had 40.85 kilowatts of solar generation and 99.44 kilowatt hours of battery storage. 40.85 kilowatts is the peak power output, not the daily energy that changes with the sun and weather. Okay, there we go. Call it solar price pressure, 41 kilowatts of solar…

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