OpenClaw's creator used $1.3 million worth of AI tokens in a month and people are freaking out

Peter Steinberger posted a $1.3 million monthly token bill, mostly for the development of OpenClaw. While his employer, OpenAI, foots the bill, it spawned a discussion about token spend.

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Peter Steinberger posted a screenshot of his $1.3 million monthly token bill — compute provided by his employer, OpenAI.

In the OpenClaw creator's comments, users questioned the high total and asked for the budget to be reallocated to engineers.

Steinberger wrote that he was testing the question: "How would we build software in the future if tokens don't matter?"