A while back I said to a friend, half joking: “With the amount of AI I’m burning through, if I ever did get to be a boss, I’d squeeze my underlings harder than any boss I’ve ever had.” Then I got a little curious myself — is there actually any data behind that feeling?

So I pulled every commit and PR timestamp from 2025 and 2026 across all my repositories (40+) with the gh CLI, and looked at the distribution from two angles: volume and timing. Let’s see how black-hearted I really am.

When I handed my workspace over to Multica back in May, I was happily picturing how letting AI take on more of the work would mean fewer late nights for me. The work did get done — but my token bill went through the roof. The other day I pulled a three-month usage report for the workspace out of curiosity, and I had to double-check that I was reading it right: about 38M tokens in May, jumping to nearly 500M in July, with a three-month total of 883M. So here’s a data-driven look at how my token consumption exploded over those three months — and why. Because my AI tasks have gone from “trying it out” to “can’t live without it”.