Theo breaks down the $132M/year token burn claim: no, but it'd be worth it
garrytan · x · 2026-10-27
Theo responds to the viral claim that @poteto burns $132,000,000/year in LLM tokens: she doesn't, but he argues that even if she did, it would be worth the cost. The thread makes the case that eye-popping agent token spending is cheap relative to the engineering time it replaces.
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