Codex agent burns 13.3M tokens over 26.5 hours on a single build
nijfranck · x · 2026-09-07
A developer shared a Codex task settlement: 13,316,950 tokens consumed and roughly 26 hours 28 minutes of agent execution time for a single run, remarking that "building software will never be the same."
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