The creator of OpenClaw, Steinberger, shared a screenshot of CodexBar on X last Friday: in just one day, his token consumption via the OpenAI API approached $20,000; over the past 30 days, that figure reached $1.3 million. He doesn't have to pay out of pocket—he's an employee at OpenAI. "This benefit reflects OpenAI's support for OpenClaw," he said when asked whether OpenAI charges him. His response was simple: "Of course not." Behind this "bill-showcase" lies Silicon Valley's burgeoning "token-maxxing" culture, where companies even maintain internal leaderboards ranking token usage. According to Steinberger, most of his spending goes toward developing OpenClaw—an AI agent that listens to his meetings and automatically executes tasks while filtering spam comments in reviews. "This automation allows us to run the project with an extremely lean team," he noted. Some critics argued that burning through $1.3 million worth of tokens in a month hardly qualifies as "lean," while others quipped that one person's token budget could fund a small startup. Steinberger responded by framing it as an exploration of a critical question: "If tokens aren't money, how should we write code in the future?" In fact, the real figures may be higher. When users questioned whether the screenshot represented his total usage across all accounts, he replied: "Yes! At least within this account."