92T tokens over 1.54M DAU: the agent-era math feud over token burn

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-09

teortaxesTex quotes John Rood's math — 92T tokens over 1.54M DAU is 60k tokens per user per day — and mocks it: Rood argues that's "chat math," since a single harness session burns that before lunch and agent bills track concurrent loops, not human logins. teortaxesTex calls these "technical" accounts innumerate and guesses from the writing style it's some Claude strain, "Haiku or a low-grade Chinese distill." The core dispute: whether per-user averages understate agent-driven token consumption.

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