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		terminalshort 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context Yeah, that 1 MM tokens is a $15 (IIRC) API call. That's gonna add up quick! My favorite hypothetical AI failure scenario is that LLM agents eventually achieve human level general intelligence, but have to burn so many tokens to do it that they actually become more expensive than a human.

k9294 6 months ago [–]

I believe Claude Code uses cache aggressively, so this 1kk tokens will be 90% discounted or do I miss something?

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