Dev's coding agents burn 8.2B tokens in a week — roughly 650 years of human coding
airesearch12 · x · 2026-09-15
Developer airesearch12 reports his coding agents burned through 8.2 billion tokens in the past 7 days — roughly equivalent to 650 years of human coding. He notes that accounting correctly for cached tokens, it translates to only about 2.4 years of nonstop reading. A striking datapoint on the token consumption scale of heavy agent workflows and the importance of prompt caching.
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