The 90th-percentile dev burns $2.2 million of tokens a year
seanwbren · x · 2026-09-07
A one-liner observing that the 90th-percentile developer now goes through $2.2 million of token spend per year — a wry take on how much compute top engineers consume in the AI coding era.
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