Comment by tmnvix

10 days ago

> I keep thinking about that (so far anonymous) company that blew 500 million dollars worth of tokens in a month

First I've heard of this. Do you know any more or could you maybe point me to a source? Kind of astounding if true! Agree that it would be very interesting to know what kind of output they got for all that effort.

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burnerRhodov3  10 days ago

no it's not true. The fact that people can even believe this is.... wild. It's a bunch of circular articles jerking eachother off about some anon company.

using $15 / mtok (Clause output using 4.6) as the metric, it would take 33.33T Tokens for you to spend $500m.. . Or enough output for like 250m books, or a developer uses 10 million tokens a day doing non-stop agentic programming, it would take that single developer 9,132 years of continuous coding to run up that bill.

  • overgard  10 days ago

    I mean, obviously it's not a single developer it's a large company, so I'm not sure what your math is attempting to prove there.

    I can spend like $8000 a month in tokens on my $200 Claude subscription without even really working that hard, so you get a few thousand employees token maxxing without a budget..