More power usage: in the last 30 days ending May 16, 2026 Peter Steinberger’s ~100 agents (or more precisely “the org, which is like −3 people for most of the stats time”) processed 603 billion tokens @ $1.3M spend (on fast mode) through the OpenAI API:
People freaking out over my AI spend. What nobody sees: Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is that I’m trying to answer the question:
How would we build software in the future if tokens don’t matter?
We constant run ~100 codex in the cloud, reviewing every PR, every issue. If a fix on main lands, @clawsweeper will eventually find that 6 month old issue and close it with an exact reference.
We run codex on every commit to review for security issues (as it’s far too easy to miss).
We run codex to de-duplicate issues and find clusters and send reports for the most pressing issues.
We have agents that can recreate complex setups, spin up ephemeral http://crabbox.sh machines, log into e.g. Telegram, make a video and post before/after fix on the PR.
There’s codex that watch new issues and—if it fits our documented vision well, automatically create a PR of it. (that then another codex reviews)
We have codex running that scans comments for spam and blocks people.
We have codex instances running that verify performance benchmarks and report regressions into Discord.
We have agents that listen on our meetings and proactively start work, e.g. create PRs when we discuss new features while we discuss them.
We build http://clawpatch.ai to split all our projects into functional units to review and find bugs and regresssions.
We do the same split for security with Vercel’s deepsec and Codex Security to find regressions and vulnerabilities.
All that automation allows us to run this project extremely lean.
More power usage: in the last 30 days ending May 16, 2026 Peter Steinberger’s ~100 agents (or more precisely “the org, which is like −3 people for most of the stats time”) processed 603 billion tokens @ $1.3M spend (on fast mode) through the OpenAI API:
What did he create? Peter:
In a follow-up tweet:
He’s supposedly building a few startups in parallel, like Jason Hoffman, albeit in “unfettered abundance mode”