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One Red Dot is Melting the Internet

From God Mode Podcast · May 16, 2026

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One Red Dot is Melting the Internet

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The viral 'AI adoption' chart misses the most important variable: token consumption. A single AI coder burns 60–100x more tokens than a casual ChatGPT user, meaning the one red dot representing 3.2 million people is actually equivalent to 50–100 dots in compute terms. That tiny slice of developers is the reason compute is scarce.