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Re:I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Inv... by chrisandchris on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:44PM (#50008165)
I wonder how you only reach $74 in 6 hour runtime. I would have guessed this runtime goes into the hundreds of dollars.

Or I'm realizing that I'm overpaying my tokens...

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Re:I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Inv... by simonw on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:50PM (#50008262)
A lot of that 6 hours isn't spent waiting for the models to return tokens, it's spent executing the code that they've written.
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