Autonomous agents promise to be powerful assistive tools for disabled people, but their usage-based token models can quickly become financially unsustainable for those on fixed incomes. This article explores the "context window tax" that arises from the architecture of these systems and discusses the trade-offs of shifting to flat-rate consumer subscriptions as a more predictable alternative.

A personal look at how AI tools serve as a cognitive prosthetic for a multiply disabled user who relies on a custom stack of Pieces, Supermemory, Hermes Agent, and GitHub Copilot to function at baseline.

A personal look at the "accessibility tax" and why multiply-disabled users are forced to build fragmented, fragile tech stacks just to function.