You're right I need a boat.

When do we call it runaway inflation? I feel like prices doubling every 2 years is enough.

And honestly the larger problem of wasting tokens to build sloppy code instead of writing a spec. You're not special throwing tokens at software anymore, I can do that too, so can nearly anyone with a bank account and a computing device. Your mistake is thinking your slop is more valuable than the slop anyone who's heard of codex can produce. You should see what small farmers, small manufacturing and repair businesses and so on are doing with tokens.