Steve Yegge Says He's Burning ~69 Billion Tokens a Month Across 12 Max Accounts and Landing 250 Commits a Day
In 'The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1,' Yegge argues human code review 'has very nearly run its course' by next year and that CI/CD gets replaced by a 'Thunderdome' that lands all commits simultaneously and diagnoses failures via swarm rather than bisection. He backs it with his own operating numbers: roughly $87k/month equivalent (~69B tokens in July 2026), 12 Max accounts plus his personal one, 175–250 commits daily, and merge-queue batches of 120–150 commits on a six-week-old project he says is already past 50% of a '100-year backlog.' His other claim — that reusable harnesses die in favor of bespoke systems 'chemically bonded' to the app — is the direct opposite of how most teams are currently investing in agent frameworks.
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