One OpenAI researcher now burns $7,000 of tokens a day. That number got all the attention. The wilder ones are buried further down the same blog post. Sometime in June, total agent runtime inside OpenAI's research org passed total human labor. By mid-August the ratio hit 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday. And the median researcher, not the top spender, runs $600 of inference daily. Then it gets eerie. The internal channels where researchers ask each other for help have gone quiet.…

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SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI says their 90th-percentile researchers now use over $7,000 worth of tokens per day.