OpenAI dev says his 50B tokens a month do the work of 100 PhDs
willdepue · x · 2026-11-01
OpenAI's willdepue says his 50 billion tokens this month are "doing the work of 100 men — and 100 men with PhDs," then jokes that publicly declaring inelastic demand for a product he pays thousands per month for is a look.
A funny-but-real datapoint on extreme heavy-user token consumption.
Related event: OpenAI Researcher Burns 50 Billion Tokens a Month, Says He Can't Stop(3 posts)→
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