Why Did Parag Agrawal Spend $378 on Tokens?

Parag Agrawal spent $378 on tokens by 1 p.m., by Joubin Mirzadegan's count, because he was excited to play with a personal app and was trying to do as much as possible without caring about the cost right then. Building it was not one of his top three tasks for the day.

The app was a test of the most limited access he could give a machine that could see everything he can see and would do the proactive work he should be doing. He wanted to know how much it would rely on internal data such as Slack, Granola, and email versus the open web. Parallel obsesses about the open web. He tells investors and customers that useful work combines personal information, company information, and the open web, so the project measured what the machine likes to spend on Parallel versus everything else in tokens, in the purest form he could manage while the tool stayed productive on his behalf.