Reverse-engineering the Futurama game with Opus and Codex cost over $10,000 in tokens
JasonBotterill · x · 2026-10-21
- Developer Jason Botterill spent about a month using Claude Opus and Codex to fully reverse-engineer the Futurama game and get it running on macOS.
- He estimates the combined token usage would cost over $10,000 at equivalent API pricing, illustrating both the power and real cost of pushing subscription coding agents to their limits.
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