One person burned 250 million tokens in a single day, a 20x increase in six weeks. The practice has a name: tokenmaxxing. The core question it answers is how much electricity you can convert into useful work.
The mechanism is parallelization. A structured daily plan lets multiple agents run simultaneously. METR research shows current models can sustain autonomous work for 12 hours, up from 1 hour a year ago. In one documented session, five agents ran concurrently: one pulled git commit history and generated a lines-of-code chart, one analyzed agent error logs by root cause, one fact-checked citations, one built a presentation in JavaScript, and one critiqued the final output. All in the background.
The full piece is worth reading for the token consumption chart alone, which shows the exact inflection point where parallel planning kicked in. The productivity ceiling, by the author's own account, remains untested.
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