We were talking about whether these metrics are meaningful. I was just pointing out that even a tiny one-person company can burn a lot of tokens.

As to whether the token spend is questionable, the number I quoted is for my production AI pipelines, not for coding. And my customers (and profit margin) seem to think the spending is valuable.

Questionable spending aside, GGP is providing information about how a specific metric may not measure what people think it measures. There is value in that comment.