Team burns 1.5T tokens rewriting Excel, PowerPoint, Word and PDF in Rust+TS for cloud AI agents
peterjliu · x · 2026-10-09
- peterjliu's team used 1.5 trillion combined input/output tokens (the web may have 15T good tokens) to rewrite Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and a PDF engine in Rust + TypeScript.
- Goal: let users fully leverage AI agents for asynchronous, parallel document work in the cloud; it outperforms open-source alternatives and even the closed-source originals on many objective measures (faster).
- He argues this is the scale of task coding agents should actually be benchmarked on.
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