"I would guess I'm one of a handful of top individuals on Earth outside the frontier labs, in terms of my experience with top-end models."

I'd argue that number of tokens burned does not translate into "experience".

And if you needed to spend $300k or so to find out that process helps manage larger efforts (process is what "fences" are outside Yegge-land), you sure spent a lot.

I mean, I'm glad the guy's got a a hobby he enjoys, but there's less insight than you'd hope for.