OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

Post by c-hendricks » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

simianwords wrote: post #98

vrganj wrote: post #84

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But.... why ? Like I read his thing on how he spends the tokens [0] and it sounds like satire. He has agents write shitty code for features other agents think other people want, then has it reviewed by other agents in hopes of catching bugs that the first agent put there, then has some more agents try to find security bugs in the now double-agented code to make it triple-agented and at the end of the day, he spent a…

>He then has the sense of humor to call this grotesque process "incredibly lean". > What's the point in all of this? What problems is this solving? Who's benefiting? The economy doesn't work like how you think it does. Its not central planning. All the usages aren't detailed in a specification, submitted for approval to 100 agencies and then allowed to be used. It shows lack of intellectual curiosity to not engage de…

Post by Our_Benefactors » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

vrganj wrote: post #112

simianwords wrote: post #98

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>He then has the sense of humor to call this grotesque process "incredibly lean". > What's the point in all of this? What problems is this solving? Who's benefiting? The economy doesn't work like how you think it does. Its not central planning. All the usages aren't detailed in a specification, submitted for approval to 100 agencies and then allowed to be used. It shows lack of intellectual curiosity to not engage de…

> The economy doesn't work like how you think it does. Its not central planning. I'm aware. That is in fact my central critique. The way it works is incredibly wasteful of our limited resources, as illustrated by this guy burning through fuel during a time of crisis for no perceptible gain. > It shows lack of intellectual curiosity to not engage deeply with obviously profound technology and what the implications are.…

Post by cyanydeez » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC

nlawalker wrote: post #150

It’s hilarious to me, seeing that one of the most fundamental challenges and frustrations of the profession of software development is the inability of management to meaningfully measure productivity and resorting to proxy measures, that a huge and vocal community of software developers have themselves become focused on a metric that maps directly to dollars spent.

Post by cyanydeez » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #24

This is quite a misleading title because this is the raw API cost, but he (obviously) has unlimited usage as an OpenAI employee. Moreover, if you use e.g. the $200 Codex sub, you get about ~$5k-$6k monthly API usage if you spend every week of your usage, if not more, which shows that the raw API cost is not how much it (likely) costs to OpenAI, unless they're subsidizing all this. He did clarify that it was with fast…

Post by cyanydeez » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC

hansmayer wrote: post #156

pama wrote: post #72

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Peter shows the near-term future. Raw API consumer price cost is arbitrary. (The frontier labs can put a 100x markup to cover other operational expenses.) The true cost of inference with same-capability models keeps dropping at dizzying rates, especially at the data-center batch size. (Due to both NVidia hardware and algorithmic changes.) So the developments that Peter can achieve today with internal support from Ope…

Peter shows shit. What did Peter meaningfully achieve? What additional revenue is he creating? ah yes - shit and more shit on all accounts as it seems.