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> How many tokens can you realistically burn through in one chat session?

I've used single digit billions in a couple days, FWIW.

I'm a fair bit lower than some others as I only use it outside of work hours on my own small projects, but my Cursor account shows (for a random recent date) 12,184,233 tokens in a day. That day feels pretty representative.

That's with 86 interactions spread intermittently over a couple of hours so if I did a full working day like that I'd be looking at maybe 40 to 50 million.

My employer is paying for it, so I'm cost insensitive, and this is mostly with Claude / Opus 4.7 (which consumes a lot of tokens?).

What sort of work were you doing?

Converting a couple hundred kLOC C++ codebase to Rust.

Cool. Sounds like it went well?

Maybe! Still evaluating if the output does what it's supposed to do.

Not the parent, but the way developers are basically trying to create entire development "teams" consisting of multiple agents that work around the clock using the latest, most expensive models (naturally) lends itself to burning insane amounts of tokens.

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