I checked an actual rollout: my 10 minute word brain dump was 2,530 tokens. Codex then read 63K tokens of tool ou…

I checked an actual rollout: my 10 minute word brain dump was 2,530 tokens. Codex then read 63K tokens of tool output and processed 2.4M input tokens. Your initial prompt is a rounding error. You will save WAY more tokens by fully specifyi

Ranked #52 on backlist 2026-06-23 (23 Jun 2026 UTC) · by @guinnesschen (Guinness Chen) · view on X ↗

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