I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts, a number that has been growing steadily at 2 per week.
Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, 
Steve Yegge (independent)
Post: Fences, not Sandboxes, yegge.ai (Steve Yegge), August 24, 2026.
Steve Yegge, Independent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026). Describes his own system and spending first-hand; his claims about other companies are relayed from conversations and unverified. Self-reported figures.
Steve Yegge (independent) sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Codex, GPT-6 Astra), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, told not to read the repository, 2026-11-07).
Exact match in the second introductory paragraph, following 'First, my secret: I see the future by living in it.' These are the author's own narrative words. The page title identifies Steve Yegge and the essay displays 2026-08-24. Retrieved with curl, stripped HTML tags, and decoded HTML entities.
Steve Yegge (Steve Yegge (independent)), “Fences, not Sandboxes”, yegge.ai (Steve Yegge), 2026-08-24. https://yegge.ai/essays/fences-not-sandboxes/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/steve-yegge-spending-equivalent-122k-month-api-token-2026
I am running an organization of around 50-60 agents, five of whom are interfacing with around 10 humans in the outside world: myself, my 5-person core game design team, my accountant, my chief of staff, and a few others. Only Fable is allowed to talk to humans, via Slack and email.
Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)
Post: Fences, not Sandboxes, yegge.ai (Steve Yegge), August 24, 2026.
Something wrong? Report a correction. JSON: /api/v1/passages/steve-yegge-spending-equivalent-122k-month-api-token-2026.json