865M tokens in one month
One user was reported to have consumed 865 million tokens in a single month, costing approximately $2,500 in API fees.
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Anthropic won the AI race, OpenAI gives Codex for free, xAI Grok Build & Claude cancel culture | GMP EP13
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May 16, 2026
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NVIDIA Hits $5.5T and the AI Echo Chamber Chart
At 11:40 · chapter starts 9:57
One Red Dot is Melting the Internet
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.
100x token burn
A developer using AI for coding burns 60 to 100 times more tokens than a casual ChatGPT user, meaning the compute shortage is driven by a tiny fraction of users.
Peter Levels: 50M tokens per minute
Developer Peter Levels operates at a token consumption rate of 50 million tokens per minute, primarily due to open-source agentic pipelines running around the clock while he sleeps.
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MVP built in one week
Sam's initial MVP was coded in approximately one week using ChatGPT voice mode and copy-pasting code, with no prior technical experience.
Discord vs email for young users
Sam argues Discord is 10x better than email for building relationships with younger users who rarely check their inbox.
Monthly infra costs ~$780–$980
Sam's monthly operating costs include Cursor ($200), AI image generation ($100), AI video generation ($200), hosting ($100), email marketing ($80), and AI compute ($300–$500).
ChatGPT-powered pain point research
Sam recommends copying days of Discord chat history into ChatGPT and prompting it to list recurring pain points as a fast, free market research technique.
50 free tools built total
Bhanu and his team built approximately 50 free tools to attract search traffic, each linked back to SiteGPT.
New tool built in under 5 minutes
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu can now create a new free marketing tool in less than 5 minutes by referencing existing tools.
KD filter < 10 for rankable keywords
Bhanu filters Ahrefs keyword results to show only those with a keyword difficulty below 10, making them realistic ranking targets for any decent website.
Minimum 1,000 monthly search volume
Bhanu sets a minimum search volume of 1,000 monthly searches when selecting keywords to target with free tools.
20 downloads/day at launch
PropGPT averaged 20 downloads per day right after launching on the App Store through influencer marketing.
