Developer's coding agents burn 8.2 billion tokens in a week — ~650 years of human coding
airesearch12 · x · 2026-09-15
A developer reports their coding agents consumed 8.2 billion tokens over the past 7 days, roughly equivalent to 650 years of human coding — a striking illustration of the throughput that massively parallel AI coding agents now enable.
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