Your intuition of LLM token usage might be wrong

I just finished a task with GPT-5.4-mini. Here&rsquo;s the session summary from oh-my-pi (an agent harness) : &#xA; Tokens &#xA; Input : 3_648_340 &#xA; Output : 61_676 &#xA; It was a hefty 30 min session. I (we?) mostly tweaked how Service A loads two sqlite databases. It now loads them per request instead of once when the service starts up. The agent had to investigate multiple services from the…