Your intuition of LLM token usage might be wrong
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A developer discovered that LLM token usage patterns differ drastically from expectations during a 30-minute coding session with GPT-4-mini, where cached reads consumed 10 times more tokens than regular reads and 100 times more than writes, demonstrating that keeping conversation context short is crucial for maximizing token usage efficiency.
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