Finally, you might be wondering about the token cost. I wasn’t running this project in a particularly token-efficient way and have repeatedly maxed out my 20x Pro subscriptions for both Claude and ChatGPT every week. I also briefly had access to a prerelease model in the last few days, which did not have a usage cap. I was not tracking my actual token usage consistently. Some AI analysis from the recovered logs roughly estimates that we’re totaling around 40 billion tokens, of which around 210 million were output tokens. Over 95% were cache reads.

Who can pay for a 20x Pro subscriptions and also get prerelease models? something weird is going on here.

Several of my coworkers — it’s not that unusual that if you can max out a couple accounts, the companies will obviously notice you (as a high cost customer), and sometimes offer more

I don't see why that's weird

ah, if it's anyone it'd be dan abramov