No, the LLM costs are not going up!

I often hear flat out false statements about the state of LLM economics, one of them being that the costs are "unsustainable". This is blatantly false and easily falsifiable with just a few minutes of thinking. Of course I can never know what really goes on internally in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic but I feel I can make really good guesses. I'll lay out a few proxies that can help drive my…