One engineer burned 275B tokens in 30 days with 31 AI subscriptions at $6,000/month
forestmars · x · 2026-10-02
A CTO Lunch NYC essay recounts a token census among NYC engineers: Zo co-founder Ben Guo left after concluding his pace was unsustainable, moved to Puerto Rico to build a software factory, and spent 275 billion tokens in 30 days across 31 active AI subscriptions (20 Codex Max, 5 Claude Max, 5 Devin Max, 1 Grok Bot) at $6,000/month — a stack he calls infrastructure for "agent civilizations," which his girlfriend diagnosed as AI psychosis. The essay argues this is what living months ahead of the boundary looks like, and that frontier labs' Q4 personal-agent launches will make such agent swarms a consumer norm.
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