Pavan Yara

The Users Stopped Being Human

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The users stopped being human.

OpenRouter data (August 10):

· Agentic tokens: 7.3 trillion weekly. · Human tokens: 1.4 trillion.

Agents use 5x more tokens. They’ve grown 14x since February.

Why? Over 85% of agentic tokens are cached. Load once. Iterate. Never restart.

Cheaper per cycle. But memory is now the bottleneck—not compute.

Meanwhile, the median enterprise doubled output. The top decile? 17x. In tech, 32.5x.

Legal workers? 108x Codex adoption since February.

Zapier, Make, N8N—down double-digits. Gumloop, AI-native—up.

Agents didn’t enhance your workflow tools. They replaced them.

The gap isn’t between early and late adopters anymore. It’s between those building for agents and those still building for chat.

Source: a16z Charts of the Week – Winds of Thematic Change at https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-winds-of-thematic

OpenRouter data showing the crossover on February 6, 2026. Agents now burn ~7.3T tokens weekly vs. ~1.4T for humans—nearly a 5x gap.

Over 85% of agentic token burn comes from cached prompts. Cached tokens account for nearly all of the category’s relative growth.

N8N, Zapier, and Make all experiencing double-digit declines on a trailing 12-week basis. Gumloop (launched 2023 as an “AI native agent builder”) is the only automation platform gaining traction.