A tiny elite of power users likely burns most of the world's tokens
sinclairx · x · 2026-10-12
Commenting on Karpathy's AI usage funnel, the author argues token consumption likely forms an inverse pyramid: roughly 5,000 heavy users probably consume far more tokens in total than the 1-2 billion casual users at the bottom — not just per capita. And if that isn't true yet, it will be soon.
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