Agents consume 10-40x more tokens than humans
LIVE from NEARCON Day 1 In SF (The Rollup)
“Agents take anywhere from 10 to 40x more tokens than a normal human beings, because agents can do things that normal human beings find it hard to do.” — 03:12:18
Context: His core demand-side argument for why the compute/energy shortage compounds; he runs ~10 always-on agents in his own house.